What is Kaizen? A Continuous Improvement Culture

Define and learn kaizen, the spirit of a continuous improvement lean culture and the Toyota Production System in this introduction video from my "Kaizen Best Practices" course at Lean Smarts!

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[goosehouseful]

I think this word has been derived from Japanese company, "TOYOTA". The industrial manager in TOYOTA used this word in abroad factories to improve a process of making cars.

[Mutch]

I have been practicing Kaizen in my life since the mid 80's when it was first brought to me at a managers meeting. I have since incorporated it into my work and the H.S. drumline I teach. All of my kids for the past 25 years know what this means and lots of them still practice it!

[amalotaijoe]

I just opened up this video to click thumbs up FOR the amazing work you did

[peterchristian]

Very thoughtful and practical approach to CI. Good job.

[ramasubramaniankrishnamoor]

Kaizen is a concept referring to business activities that continues improve all function and involved all employees from the CEO.

[amirm]

Thanks for this! Helps with my uni assignment :D

[mr.kaizenfromjapan]

I am doing KAIZEN in Japan. I think your video is very helpful .

[AnthonyHuman]

Kaizen is one of the most important concepts I've found in changing my life. This video does a great job explaining the meaning of the word both in its original language and in the American bastardization... I mean, appropriation of the word. Great job on that part. I'll be using your video to explain this concept to my new team.

Not sure what your point was in bringing up "front line employees" though. You sound very dismissive of this sector in general, even though in sales and especially retail, these are the most important people. For example: self-checkout isn't here because of dumb cashiers or dumb stockers or rude employees or a million other reasons. Self-checkout is here for two reasons: one is overhead; machines are cheaper than people even when you factor in shrink. But my point in bringing it up is reason number two: self-checkouts are here because marketers ruined cashiers. We annoyed customers into not wanting to talk to salespeople, so of COURSE they would want machines instead of cashiers. I'm gonna do an essay on this, so this comment will stop here.

Life is funny, because things are trending backwards. Anyway, yeah... not sure why you were dismissive of front line workers here. With your "ideas can come from anyone" insinuation. This part of the video was weird and unnecessary to me. Seemed like the required third paragraph stuck on the end of a middle school essay about why kaizen is important.

But the first two paragraphs were great! Keep grinding, man. Good stuff! Keep teaching and keep explaining, because you do both very well. Cheers!

[abdullahal-juhani]

Your English is very clear .. thank you

[simplyapleb]

Thank you for that informative and we'll presented video. Subscribed!.

[sanjaykumarsingh]

Too Good ! Very informative & Impressive !

[billparrish]

It was actually introduced to post-war Japan by an American.

[joshbrolin]

Oh, its actually equal to Chinese "改善“ gai shan. The meaning is totally same.

[abdikadersalad]

Teacher how can I get kaizen material pdf

[amyle]

CovidImages need to be invested more than half19

[pastmemories]

Kaizen is wrong, radical innovation and disruptive are now the norm. Japan has lost to Korea and Korea to Taiwan in terms of per capita nominal GDP and Japan has lost at all fronts. Hyundai makes hydrogen unmanned trucks, 600km/h trains, and horsedogs and has the electric car standard platform egmp which is the same as pc architectrure or android phone.Japan can't make missiles, nuclear fusion and semiconductors. US and the two Koreas are the world's only countries that have indigenous native code office packages. Japan has been kicked out from all digital and now also in tradittioan such as shipbuilding. Only Korea can make LNG cryovessels and icebreaking supertankers. Not even music. Only Korea makes music these days but from Japan AKB48 is the only one. I simply can;t understand what the myth is about Japan. It is not just the Plaza agreement that caused Japan to decline, The failure to address digital convergence in the '90s was the decisive factor that kicked out Japan from the global. Things like kanban, jidoka, tqm, zero defect etc. have simply no place in today's digitronic global economy. In a similar context, ther German Mittelstand concept is not relevant to the current global situation.I was surprised that Germany has zero LNG terminals. Japan adopted Germany as a role model during the border opening and the related Myeongchi Yushin. Now these are not according to the current times.

[deepankertamang]

Please go to gym, , You'll look more hero.

[CyberserveATX]

started out strong then rambled ....you could reduce your video by 2min to take out he ramble