In an era where companies must deliver speed, accuracy, and customer satisfaction all at once, a decades old Japanese philosophy is re- emerging as an unlikely engine of modern transformation. The ...

IN A GOOD YEAR, THE U.S. manufacturing sector might chalkup a 4% overallincrease in productivity. At the plant level, some top-flight produc-tion operations have achieved gains of 20% or more in a 12- ...

Kaizen 101 Kaizen is a term used by practitioners to mean a variety of things. But what does it really mean? What is the essence of Kaizen and what types of initiatives does it create? I will give you ...

The Continual Improvement Subgroup (CISG), one of the subgroups functioning under Dubai Quality Group (DQG), has launched today the First Continual Improvement Symposium, in Roads and Transport ...

More than likely you’ve heard the term kaizen or kaizen blitz, but what is kaizen? Kaizen is a Japanese term meaning change for the better or incremental improvement. Continuous improvement can take ...

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, 10 th November 2009: Mashreq, one of the leading financial institutions in the region, bagged the Gold Award at the Kaizen Blitz Competition held during the First ...

I'VE just completed the first of three batches of participants attending my exclusive Kaizen Blitz workshop for a 45-year-old multinational company based in Laguna. After only five hours, the 24 team ...

“Change for the better.” In Japanese, the term roughly translates to kaizen, a business philosophy based on continuously improving processes throughout a company’s entire ecosystem, from the CEO down ...