Kaizen - is the Japanese word for "improvement" презентация

to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. It also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain. 

guru" and the founder of the concept of continuous improvement. Is a consulting company that has offices in more than 30 countries around the world.Over the past 30 years, Masaaki Imai has held numerous lectures on Kaizen. Masaaki Imai is the author of "Kaizen: the key to success of Japanese companies" (1986) and "Gemba Kaizen: a Way to reduce costs and improve quality" (1997).

a number of Japanese companies in the late 1940-ies. Now this method is used by such distinguished companies as Toyota, Nissan, Canon, Honda, Komatsu, and Matsushita.

top Manager — Mr. Taiichi Ohno. He always believed in the power and talent of their subordinates and were confident that if you give them the necessary powers, they will be able to solve any problems.

was to produce 100 units per hour. Then It gave their engineers and resources are allowed to produce only 90 units, but required them to produce all 100. Since they could not immediately do this, they had to either work overtime or to come up urgently with some improvement in order to cope with the task. When the engineers finally invented the method of solving the problem, he was removed from this production line 10% of the workers and threw them to another area. And the rest are again required to produce 100 units of output.

So Toyota has become a global brand

Conclusion:
The General scheme of the Kaizen philosophy.

“Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.”

“The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.”


Masaaki Imai