In his new book, Gemba Kaizen: The Common-Sense Approach to Business Management (1997, McGraw-Hill), Masaaki Imai, founder and chairman of the Kaizen Institute, points out that af-ter Toyota Motor ...

A Kaizen event, sometimes referred to as a Kaizen blitz, is a focused short-term project to improve a process. Tools implemented during a Kaizen event include value stream mapping, 5S, and Total ...

After your next payday, try a Kaizen Blitz: Take a look at what’s been working so far, streamline payments, centralize accounts, create a spreadsheet or two, and clean everything up.

Safety kaizen blitz – “Kaizen” means continuous improvement, and blitz means “do it quickly.” In a safety kaizen blitz, a facilitator leads a small group of workers in a brainstorming session, with a ...

Kaizen, a Japanese word meaning "improvement," is a blitz approach used to resolve a specific problem. The intent of kaizen is to increase profits by eliminating wasted efforts and materials in a ...

The Kaizen Blitz is an extremely effective way to get a tactical, low-hanging-fruit project completed. I use them all the time for 5S or in APO’s case 6S events which deal with workplace ...

Are you using Kaizen in your sales approach? The philosophy is grounded in the 2,000-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching — “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ...

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, 10th 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 Continual ...