KAIZEN- Masaaki Imai

2. Author Bibliography

3. In Japanese management, kaizen means that
"Continuous improvement" involving the
complete force from the highest management to
middle managers and employees.
The origin of Japan's kaizen movement was the
standard management technique foreign from
the United States in the post-World War Two
period.

4. Japanese corporations, as an example, have with
success designed, manufactured, and marketed
competitive merchandise exploitation KAIZEN
strategy.
Whereas varied cultural, social, and political
factors are pointed out, only a few observe of
Japanese management practices have examined
the strategy really used by Japanese management
over the last thirty years.

5. Summary
In Kaizen, Masaaki Imai describes the key to the
Japanese success to competitive production.
Kaizen is outlined because the philosophy behind
this success, wherever the term kaizen is
employed within the same approach because the
term Lean in alternative literature regarding
Japanese producing success.
In a very Kaizen organization, workers are actively
sustaining standards and management is
frequently raising the standards.

6. Cont..
 Within the Kaizen philosophy, management is inspired
to concentrate on the factors that influence the results,
the P-criteria. It also describes the distinction between
KAIZEN AND INNOVATION.
 A Kaizen Corner could be a place wherever individual
workers will hand in suggestions for improvement, the
thus known as Suggestion system.
 Last chapter describes however KAIZEN MANAGEMENT
facilitates Total Quality Control.

7. Experiance
• I am studying with the idea of Kaizen for
personal development. One of the principle
ideas of Kaizen is to change the easiest things
first. So what I have done now is work first, get
all the unrelated work thing out the way
amongst employee. That would include try to
reduce the use of smartphone during office
hours. What I have noticed that my employee
has become more focused on work and task
were given.

8. Personal Opinion
• To implement the practice of Kaizen in your life, decide
a section that you think that might enjoy change.
Check up on the method closely and rise what changes
you may create to form it higher or faster or have less
wastage. It is a slow method thus I wouldn't go head
long into this. The frequency at that you implement
changes is clearly up to you but i might area it each few
weeks or monthly. Actually KAIZEN philosophy same
with Islamic principle base on the prophet Muhammad
PBUH said: "Those who are most successful are the
ones who today is better than yesterday and those who
fail are those who today are worse than today, while
deception is that people today the same as yesterday".
(Narrated by Bukhari and Muslim)

9. Recomendation
• KAIZEN book is helpful primer for anyone who
fell important to improve their leadership and
management, thus to know what
methodology and motivation have that bring
them to nice success to their followers even
after their live. This book rated 4/5 stars in for
business and leadership management reading
for short term and long term goals.