Kaizen Start your continuous improvement journey with improving yourself VadiK Inventor Author Founder   Kaizen 6Ws of the Kaizen Wheel Kaizen Mindset Kaizen Principles   Kaizen and Kaikaku Quick and Easy Kaizen Kaizen and Management Examples of Kaizen Implementation Toyota Fidelity     Kaizen means "improvement". Kaizen strategy calls for never-ending efforts for improvement involving everyone in the organization – managers and workers alike. Two Parts of Kaizen Management ① Cross-functional Management ② Policy Deployment     "Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money... You can't do Kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul." ~ Masaaki Imai      The Japanese management encourages employees to generate a great number of suggestions and works hard to consider and implement these suggestions, often incorporating them into the overall Kaizen strategy.    Kaizen Culture  3 Pillars 8 Elements   Learn   Continuous Improvement   Teach Everything can and should be improved ‒ look for opportunities!   Kaikaku-Kaizen Synergy Kaizen and TQM  Kaizen and Innovation Kaizen Implementation: 7 Conditions Glossary of Kaizen and Lean Terms Continuous Improvement Firm (CIF)  Implementation →  Best Practices       Keep in Mind       "Kaizen" means quite different things in Japan and the West. In Japan, "kaizen" is a journey that focuses on people – it calls to start any improvement with yourself and then improve everything around you. In the West, "kaizen" is narrowly focused on improving processes.   Learn   Continuous Improvement   Teach