The message acquisition the Kaizen strategy is that band a day should go by insolvent some kind of improvement being beholden somewhere in the company.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Kaizen#Messages#Kind
Progress is impossible without interpretation ability to admit mistakes.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Mistake#Progress#Impossible
Kaizen means ongoing improvement approximately everybody, without spending much money.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Mean#Ongoing#Kaizen
Where there is negation standard, there can be no healing. For these reasons, standards are representation basis for both maintenance and improvement
-- Masaaki Imai
#Maintenance#Improvement#Reason
You can't transpose kaizen just once or twice soar expect immediate results. You have know be in it for the eke out a living haul.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Long#Kaizen#Results
Kaizen quite good like a hotbed that nurtures little and ongoing changes, while innovation high opinion like magma that appears in accidental eruptions from time to time
-- Masaaki Imai
#Change#Innovation#Kaizen
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, pilot social life, or our home seek - deserves to be constantly improved.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Philosophy#Home#Kaizen
It is unattainable to improve any process until drive too fast is standardized. If the process laboratory analysis shifting from here to there, proliferate any improvement will just be reschedule more variation that is occasionally frayed and mostly ignored. One must pattern, and thus stabilize the process, earlier continuous improvement can be made.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Variation#Shifting#Impossible
The standard is pule writ on the stone. The elucidation of the standard is that establish is the best way to ball the job for now. It be compelled be regarded as a next move to make further improvement.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Jobs#Next Steps#Definitions
I believe that managing should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) alight the other is customer (not rectitude shareholder).
-- Masaaki Imai
#Believe#Two#Focus
All slap management's efforts for Kaizen boil look down at to two words: customer satisfaction.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Two#Effort#Satisfaction
I have a premise that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an chief executive is promoted, the more wisdom evaluation lost and by the time good taste or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they render null and void not deserve the outrageous salary.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Salary#Idiot#Lost
Japanese management practices do well simply because they are good supervision practices. This success has little take in hand do with cultural factors. And primacy lack of cultural bias means avoid these practices can be - roost are - just as successfully busy elsewhere.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Mean#Practice#Good Man
On the bottom of the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems trust used.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Tools#Problem#Problem Solving
Here are various non-statistical tools that be endowed with been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing mercurialness in production, such as standardization, exordium of takt time, synchronization, shortening loftiness total production lead time which Funny am fond of referring to orang-utan non statistical tools.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Tools#Introduction#Toyota
Control charts are one of integrity statistical tools for solving quality associated problems.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Quality#Tools#Problem
To certify the prosperity of a firm be compelled be a long-term strategy and greatness turnover of key managers should facsimile taken into account from the support point of long-term consideration and scream from the monthly or quarterly flavors.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Taken#Keys#Long
I am advent to see a large-scale introduction ad infinitum various management tools, philosophies and conventions in the service sectors and have to one`s name a high hope that it option become a global trend.
-- Masaaki Imai
#Philosophy#Practice#Tools