What is a Kaizen Event? Your Roadmap Rapid Improvement
March 23, 2022Known in Lean and Six Sigma circles as Kaizen events, rapid improvement sprints or blitzes are an impactful way to implement improvement...
What is Kaizen? A Mindful System of Quality Improvement
March 21, 2022We’ve written quite a bit about the definition of Kaizen, but today, I thought it would be an interesting challenge to reflect on how I...
Top Reasons to Consider a Digital 5S Tool
November 18, 2021The 5S technique is part of a broader set of management practices known as visual management or visual control. Although these tools are...
The Vital Role of Electronic Kaizen at Toyota Memorial Hospital
September 16, 2021Lean or the Toyota Production System often gets an unfair rap for being "anti-technology." Some of this mindset results from the old debate...
Kaizen: The Japanese Approach to Continuous Improvement
September 2, 2021In the business management context, continuous improvement means a never-ending effort to identify and eliminate the root causes of...
Best Practices for Effective Kaizen Management
August 16, 2021Kaizen management can give your company a significant edge over your competitors. It involves lean operations and continuous improvement,...
The Fundamental Principles of Kaizen Project Management
June 14, 2021The continuous improvement methodology of Kaizen was once closely associated with industrial and automotive manufacturing. That’s because...
What is Kanban? A Quick Guide to Visualized Improvement
July 28, 2021There are dozens of tools and techniques used by organizations to support their continuous improvement efforts. The most successful...
A Guide to Sustained Improvement with the Kaizen Methodology
May 28, 2021If you are exploring ways to make your organization more efficient and better at sustaining continuous improvement, you may have come...