Kaizen (改善) is the Japanese word for "continuous improvement". It involves viewing solutions as temporary solutions, that will be refined with time.

Quotes

  • Kaizen means improvement. Moreover, it means continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life. When applied to the workplace...[it] means continuing improvement involving everyone – managers and workers alike.
  • I strive to be kaizen in everything that I do – from my personal life (e.g. commuting) all the way to my professional life (reports, task management, time management). And I am having fun doing it, it gives me energy, and it makes me wait and long for the upcoming day, when I can find even more amazing ways to do something better. Or not, failure is always there to teach me.
  • In productivity circles the term means... every aspect of an organization should, at all times, strive to do what it does better. The philosophy first appeared when several Japanese businesses, shortly after World War II, embraced the idea that doing things the way they've always been done was a bad idea, especially when better options were available that would make them more competitive. "Kaizen" came to be synonymous with company-wide efforts to improve upon and intelligently streamline business practices and manufacturing methods while simultaneously respecting the product, craft, or the people involved with making it.
  • Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning, roughly, continuous improvement. It is one of a batch of oriental ideas seized upon by western companies in the 1980s when it was thought that Japan was the source of most wisdom about management.
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