Kaizen 5.0

The ability to rapidly adjust to the continuous change that is happening across all industries has become a must.

Organizations need tools to improve their processes to make them more flexible so they can respond to market changes quicker and more effectively.

A powerful tool to accomplish this is Kaizen.

What’s Kaizen?

Kaizen is a Japanese word that translates as “continuous changes for good” in English. It is most commonly associated with the 2 words “continuous improvement”.

Kaizen as a philosophy that focuses mainly on finding ways to improve by implementing small and continuous changes.

Kaizen as a tool is part of the Lean Manufacturing toolbox and consists of implementing small projects in short periods of time.  These small projects target improving a particular area, process, or performance metric. In other words, the target is to reach precise improvements in a short period of time.

Kaizen 5.0 is an improved method that takes Kaizen to a superior level.

Kaizen 5.0 utilizes the principles of Agile Change Lean Sigma 5.0.  By using these principles, Kaizen 5.0 targets Change & Improvement at the same time covering both the human factor (your people) as well as the technical factor (process, infrastructure, and systems) in a completely integrated way.  The result?

Better & more enduring improvements where you obtain process, infrastructure or system improvements while, at the same time, obtaining soft improvements such as teamwork, openness to change, and team motivation. Your Organization obtains both types of benefits, not only one or the other.

Applying Kaizen 5.0 in your Organization

You can utilize Kaizen 5.0 to improve operational or transactional processes across your Organization.  Kaizen are quick and short (3 days up to 2 Weeks) so the improvements to achieve should fit in this time frame. 

Some examples of where you can apply Kaizen 5.0.
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