Kaizen is a system that involves every employee - from upper management to the cleaning crew. Everyone is encouraged to come up with small improvement suggestions on a regular basis. This is not a once a month or once a year activity. It is continuous. Japanese companies, such as Toyota and Canon, a total of 60 to 70 suggestions per employee per year are written down, shared and implemented.

In most cases these are not ideas for major changes. Kaizen is based on making little changes on a regular basis: always improving productivity, safety and effectiveness while reducing waste.

Suggestions are not limited to a specific area such as production or marketing. Kaizen is based on making changes anywhere that improvements can be made. Western philosophy may be summarized as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." The Kaizen philosophy is to "do it better, make it better, improve it even if it isn't broken, because if we don't, we can't compete with those who do."

Kaizen Workshop
Perhaps you have a problem that you would like resolved immediately! After performing the initial data collection required to define your problem an experienced Kaizen Leader will facilitate your team through a workshop.  Together stakeholders will apply Lean Thinking and the PDCA Method in order to reduce waste and cycle-time and deliver a solution ready to implement within 5-Days.

Kaizen Training
This course is for improvement-leaders and teaches the structured Kaizen method of how to run problem solving sessions involving small to medium sized teams who deliver a project in a 6-10 week period.

The Kaizen course is built around teaching key tools and techniques of Kaizen as well as real application to enhance learning.  Kaizen principles are trained and then applied through a hands-on Kaizen Event Simulation Case Study.  The training course is very interactive and emphasizes problem solving and presentation of outcomes. When completed, course participants will have a solid foundation on how to successfully facilitate their own Kaizen Events.