I first encountered the concept of kaizen in the early 1980s through the teaching of Masaaki Imai and later through his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. Imai explained that the ...

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 ...

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“Change for the better.” In Japanese, the term roughly translates to kaizen, a business philosophy based on continuously improving processes throughout a company’s entire ecosystem, from the CEO down ...