You have big, ambitious goals and even bigger dreams. But how do you get from where you are now to making those dreams come true? The answer may surprise you: By aiming for just 1 percent improvement.

In a world that's perpetually evolving, staying stagnant is not an option—especially for business owners and individuals ...

22 December 2006 Kaizen is A Japanese term that is used to refer to continuous incremental improvement. The originally Japanese term consists of two words "kai," which means change, and "zen," which ...

Continuous improvement has become a must-have business mindset to innovate and stay ahead of competition. Working in manufacturing, you probably know kaizen— the Japanese word often translated as ...

Personally, I don’t push for the Japanese terminology as hard as some of my purist colleagues when it comes to training and implementation. The reason being that I came up in the Steel Industry and ...

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 ...

Deming says ‘your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you get.’ My experience so far completely agrees with Deming in this respect,” says Mark Porter, Operator Driven Reliability (ODR ...

Kaizen (continuous improvement) means making small, incremental improvements every day. This approach can make it easier to overcome laziness because the tasks seem less daunting. Pomodoro involves ...