by Mary McDonald | Feb 24, 2022 | Lean
The Key Differences Between Kaizen and Lean Thinking Kaizen is a Japanese word for continuous improvement. It is a culture where every individual strives to improve their work and the work of others. Kaizen is the process of making small, incremental changes to...
by Mary McDonald | Apr 11, 2016 | Lean
A Kaizen event (also sometimes called a Kaizen blitz) is a focused short-term project to kick off process improvement; and is used to pull all the “right” people together for a short time period (typically, a week), in order to identify the current...