Kaizen the Sino-Japanese word for “improvement”, is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain. It has been applied in FMCG, electronics, heavy industry, healthcare, psychotherapy, life coaching, government, and banking.
— The goal of Kaizen – production without loss.
In most organizations, all proposals go through the stages from an ordinary employee to management strictly according to hierarchy, which slows down the process of review and subsequent implementation. As a result, no changes are made, and the activity remains at the same level. Using Kaizen system allows you to remove barriers between employees and management in this process, and allows you more effectively make changes to optimize or improve
- Creating proposal
- Consideration of the proposal
- Approval / Cancellation of the proposal
- Implementation of the proposal
- Adding a proposal to the archive
- Encouraging employees
The implementation of the Kaizen system contributes to achieving of zero loss in production or service,
and also ensures a positive dynamics of continuous improvement in the company.
If you don’t get better every day, you get worser
— the essence of Kaizen in one phrase