Quotes About Kaizen

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle, a cornerstone of continuous improvement. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen and is the process of making incremental improvements, no matter how small, and achieving the lean goal of eliminating all waste that adds cost without adding to value.

So physically shifting from batch and queue operations (explained in greater detail later in the chapter) to one-piece flow without inventory almost guarantees you will encounter many more problems. So why do it? Precisely to allow the processes to break so we can discover the weak points and improve through kaizen.

Source: Peter R. Scholtes, The Leader's Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Challenge: We form a long-term vision, meeting challenges with courage and creativity to realize our dreams. Kaizen: We improve our business operations continuously, always driving for innovation and evolution. Genchi Genbutsu: We practice Genchi Genbutsu—believing in going to the source to find the facts to make correct decisions, build consensus, and achieve goals at our best speed.

Kaizen" is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements.

Build the kaizen habit of asking yourself small (and positive) questions... You are programming your brain for creativity

Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

Všechny zm?ny, dokonce i ty pozitivní, vedou k obavám. Pokusy dosáhnout cíle radikálními nebo revolu?ními prost?edky ?asto selhávají, protože zvyšují strach. Ale malé postupné kroky kaizen snižují odpov?? mozku na strach, stimulují racionální myšlení a kreativní hru.

People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can't overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.

Kaizen offers the possibility that through small acts of kindness, and even small moments of compassion and curiosity, we can change ourselves—and, eventually, humanity.

So they tackle their weaknesses and fears head on, even if dipping into the zone of the unknown brings with it a measure of discomfort. They resolve to live by the wisdom of kaizen, improving every aspect of themselves ceaselessly and continuously. With time, things that were once difficult become easy. Fears that once prevented them from all the happiness, health and prosperity they deserved fall to the wayside like stickmen toppled by a hurricane.

el poder del kaizen, palabra japonesa que designa el desarrollo de sí mismo y el progreso constantes.

Kaizen is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements. It was considered to be one of the main reasons for the dramatic gains in productivity and quality in Japanese manufacturing and was widely copied throughout the world. Kaizen applies to individuals, too. Every day, work to refine the skills you have and to add new tools to your repertoire.

Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

The Toyota Way

Pensamiento Toyota: gestión diaria normal = mejora de procesos

The Third Ideal is Improvement of Daily Work. Reflect upon what the Toyota Andon cord teaches us about how we must elevate improvement of daily work over daily work itself.

The right use of kaizen in Operational Excellence is using kaizen to eliminate the need for management in the flow of product to the customer.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.

Shook and Verble, Managing to Learn.

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research