{"id":7626,"date":"2022-04-07T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T08:13:20","slug":"kaizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/kaizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the Japanese Kai (improvement) and Zen (good) KAIZEN is recognized worldwide as an important pillar of an&nbsp;organisation\u2019s&nbsp;long-term competitive strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 5 Fundamental KAIZEN Principles that are embedded in every KAIZEN tool and in every KAIZEN behaviour. The 5 principles are: Know your Customer, Let it Flow, Go to Gemba, Empower People and Be Transparent. The implementation of those 5 principles in any&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;is fundamentally important for a successful Continuous Improvement culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From an organisational transformation perspective, radical changes or innovations can provide significant improvements in productivity and efficiency, whilst continuous improvements maintain the momentum and further build upon the success and benefits of the initial innovative implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It recognizes and rewards the efforts of employees and improves teamwork.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It improves efficiency and reduces waste.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It builds leadership skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It can be difficult to implement in existing management systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It requires significant training efforts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The overall efforts can be compromised if some departments resist adoption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1241630.Kaizen\">Kaizen: The Key to Japan\u2019s Competitive Success<\/a>, Imai Masaaki, 1986, ISBN&nbsp;9780075543329<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaizen.com\/\">Kaizen Institute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Japanese Kai (improvement) and Zen (good) KAIZEN is recognized worldwide as an important pillar of an&nbsp;organisation\u2019s&nbsp;long-term competitive strategy. There are 5 Fundamental KAIZEN Principles that are embedded in every KAIZEN tool and in every KAIZEN behaviour. The 5 principles are: Know your Customer, Let it Flow, Go to Gemba, Empower People and Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-k"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2leadership.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}