Continuous improvement sounds nice until you try to do it every day. These quotes from Kaizen pioneers and operational leaders reveal what sustained improvement actually takes.
Lean process improvement tools can help you to improve quality and efficiency while saving costs. We take a look at seven-plus tools that will help you.
The drive towards process excellence should be continuous. Use these approaches to excellence to be more competitive, cut costs and build customer loyalty.
Kaizen is a Japanese management methodology that helps achieve continuous improvement. Rean on to learn what Kaizen is all about and how you can implement it in your organization.
A Kaizen event is a five-day team workshop with a specific goal for improving a business process and minimizing waste within an organization.
Motorola's 1986 initiative reduced product defects to 3.4 per million opportunities using statistical measurements. Most companies operate at 3 Sigma with 66,807 defects per million. Shifting just one Sigma level to 4 Sigma returns massive savings to bottom line, typically generating 20% profit margin growth annually through systematic DMAIC methodology identifying root causes.
The consistent buzz about continuous process improvement has been present for more than three decades - to the point where it is becoming a background hum.