
The Real Meaning of Kaizen
What does the word “kaizen” mean to you? You likely know the word kaizen to mean âcontinuous improvementâ or just âimprovementâ. Perhaps you first heard
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What does the word “kaizen” mean to you? You likely know the word kaizen to mean âcontinuous improvementâ or just âimprovementâ. Perhaps you first heard
In the first two posts in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area,
In the first post in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area, describe how
Less than a month before my family wrapped up our time in Japan last June, Tim Wolput of Lean Japan Study Tours invited me to
As I’ve written about in earlier posts, last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese “5S City” of Ashikaga to learn about how organizations in
In the previous four posts in this series about my visit to Toyota Memorial Hosptial (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, last month, I’ve covered topics
Continuous Improvement and the Toyota Way In an earlier post about my visit to Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, last month, I
It’s been a busy few weeks for me filled with great learning and travel! But all of this “doing” also means that I haven’t been
Last year I learned of a town in rural Japan that considers itself the “5S Mecca” of the world because of the entire town’s adoption of Japanese
Lean and Kaizen in Healthcare My most recent post about Lean in Japan and in Japanese hospitals has been a popular one and has generated many comments on social media
As a Lean healthcare practitioner and coach, it has been one of my goals while living in Japan to learn more about how Japanese hospitals think
Data and measurement are key components to improvement. As I wrote about in my previous two blog posts, a Tokyo hospital that I visited twice last month (both
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