Kaizen
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Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy of continuous incremental improvement involving all employees. It teaches people to question processes to maximize efficiency, transfer knowledge, and understand their work's purpose. The goal is to continuously improve all business functions through daily activities that eliminate waste and overwork using scientific methods. Key elements include teamwork, personal discipline, improved morale, quality circles, and suggestions for improvement.
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Kaizen
- 1. KAIZEN
- 2. Kaizen is a way to teach people to be resourceful to understand the true purpose of their work, to transfer knowledge and to question each element of a task or operation to maximize efficiency
- 3. It is a Japanese word for “ Improvement” This focus on never ending improvement in manufacturing activities, business activities in general and even life in general Kaizen typically refers to the activities that continuously improve all functions of a business from manufacturing to management and from the CEO or the assembly line workers Kaizen is a daily activity the purpose of which lay beyond simple productivity improvement It is also a process that when done correctly improves the work place eliminating over hard work and teaches people to perform experiments on their work using the scientific method and how to learn to spot eliminate waste in business processes
- 4. The Kaizen method consists of 5 elements: 1. Team work 2. Personal Discipline 3. Improved morale 4. Quality circles 5. Suggestions for improvement