Long, long ago, Kaizen events meant walking-around observation and value stream mapping in face-to-face and elbow-to-elbow meetings. We believed that sharing respiratory space was essential to ...

22 December 2006 Kaizen is A Japanese term that is used to refer to continuous incremental improvement. The originally Japanese term consists of two words "kai," which means change, and "zen," which ...

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THE word Kaizen is translated from Japanese to mean "continuous improvement." Kaizen events are an organized team effort to improve reliability of a process, reduce setup/lead times, streamline a ...

Most productivity methods give you tools to tackle specific projects or to-dos in an organized way. Kaizen, which translates roughly to "good change," is a Japanese productivity philosophy that helps ...

The Japanese concept of kaizen fits perfectly into DevOps by pushing people to take responsibility for their operations and fix mistakes as they crop up. Do you see the similarities in this approach ...

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