Kaizen, Japanese Ways of Managing Business

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Kaizen’s steps, The first step.

You might hear kaizen often or you might also notice kaizen jargon in many places. But I, myself, concern more on how to implement it rather than what or who created it. It is important to know what kaizen is, or who created it, but it is more more important to know how to do it. Many management speakers, and of course they are all expert on management, speak or give advices about best management practices. But not all of them realize that the process doesn’t stop just like that.

It is like kaizen, and also other terminologies, how to implement it is the most important thing. Then how? Kaizen has 3 basic steps in implementing it in any places and circumstances, namely:

  1. Eliminate
  2. Reduce
  3. Change
Or,


Today, let discuss the first step. Elimination.

Elimination is the best achievement of kaizen. (to be continued)



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1 Comments:

  • At June 14, 2007 7:50 PM , Blogger Dr. Lauchlan A. K. Mackinnon said...

    Hi

    I'm not sure that these three steps are the best description of Kaizen . . . to me Kaizen is primarily philosophy of continuous improvement and striving towards even greater excellence that gets embedded in the organisation. As I see it, elimination of waste is an outgrowth of that, not a driver for it.

    Please feel free to disagree if you do . . . I blogged a little on the history of Kaizen at http://lauchlanmackinnon.blogspot.com/2007/06/kaizen-and-idea-management-systems.html

    It sounds to me a little bit like this 3 step model is describing lean (an outgrowth of the Kaizen philosophy and culture) rather than Kaizen.

    Let me know your thoughts (drop me an email or blog on my site is best as I may or may not check back to this post)

    Regards

    Lauchlan Mackinnon

     

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