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Tiny, common-sense improvements made to everyday processes can have a powerful compounding effect. Small is mighty. That’s the essence of kaizen, the Japanese workplace philosophy where individuals at ...

Click to view A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to "continuous slow improvement." In the corporate world, it's an efficiency and defect-proofing system often used on ...

Long, long ago, Kaizen events meant walking-around observation and value stream mapping in face-to-face and elbow-to-elbow meetings. We believed that sharing respiratory space was essential to ...