What is Kaizen? APO’s Quick Primer on Improvement… pun intended
Kaizen 101 Kaizen is a term used by practitioners to mean a variety of things. But what does it really mean? What is the essence of Kaizen and what types of initiatives does it create? I will give you my take on Kaizen as a LEAN Six Sigma practitioner and consultant to various companies across […]
LEAN/Six Sigma… LEAN Six Sigma… What happened to our Continuous Improvement?
I see a lot of mid-sized companies that have a LEAN Manufacturing team, and/or old vestiges of Lean Six Sigma. There are several problems that I observe: Lean is poorly implemented or not understood Six Sigma was abandoned for lack of time to commit to projects or inability to understand the application of statistics and […]