Kaizen Group

Fifty hours a week is not a lot of time for doing both leader's standard work and continuous improvement work. It's disrespectful to waste part of someone else's 50 hours.

Continuous Improvement is Key to Money Success
Jamaica Observer
Acquiring new habits of success is not an overnight process; erasing long-held negative beliefs and behaviour can take years of dedicated work.

Windsor Star (blog)
Grace Macaluso's Auto Talk
Windsor Star (blog)
Beyond Expectations, which incorporates Toyota's culture of Kaizen — continuous improvement — with Disney's best practices, proven methodologies, and business lessons.

Correctly Categorizing Waste for Continuous Improvement
Reliable Plant Magazine
We learned a great deal from the sensei, our continuous improvement manager and our plant manager.

Look up W. Edwards Deming on the Internet and you will learn that he revolutionized manufacturing practices If you’re a small business owner  there’s a concept Deming popularized that you can apply. It’s called PDCA, for plan / do / check /act. It’s a way to improve the processes a company implements by making sure those processes produce ever-better outcomes. Let’s say you want to increase profitability by doing three things: Schedule better, train current field employees, and make sure all materials are on the job when needed. So you write a six-week plan calling for you to buy and learn a scheduling program, set up an on-site training to train workers, and start ordering materials four days ahead of needing them. Suppose you did all those things. Congratulations: You accomplished the “Plan” and “Do” parts of PDCA.

The key to success in PDCA lies in the last two components: check and act. This cycle is repeated continuously as the company matures and different problems arise. That’s why Deming’s PDCA cycle also is called “continuous improvement.”

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Leveraging practical 5S tools for Lean and continuous improvement progress Plant Engineering That's the advice of Randy Kopf, continuous improvement manager at Team Accountability Boards are located in 24 areas at the RMB plant in Fountain, CO RMB...

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This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean ...