GEMBA KAIZEN
...ness result and achieve ýmaximum quality in product or service.ý Kaizen Definitioný KAIZEN is a Commonsense Approach to Low Cost Management. It focuses on MUDA ýelimination ý There is an important glossary in the beginning of the book; basically it gives ýoverall view of the significant concepts, such as:ý KAIZEN: a Japanese term for continual improvement, meaning "change for the ýbetter", it involves both workers and managers, "can become a way of life, It's an ýattitude, a spirit that prevails at all times in the company" (Edward C. Johnson,III) ý ý.ý Most “uniquely Japanese” management practices, such as TQC or company-wide ýquality control, quality circles, can be reduced to one word: kaizen.ý Using the term kaizen in place of such words as productivity, TQC, JIT (just-in-time) ýand the suggestion system shows a picture of what has been going on in Japanese ýindustry. Kaize...