BEING INNOVATIVE - KAIZEN Flashcards

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What is Kaizen

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Kaizen is a management philosophy that involves the whole workforce in making small, consistent changes to improve the quality of products or processes

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What does Kai and Zen stand for

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Kai = Change
Zen = Good

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How does Kiazen work in comparison to western improvement methods

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The western method is to massively change randomly in the future, but the Kaizen method is change consistently over time (constant improvement)

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What does Kaizen invlove

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Regular staff meetings

Workers encouraged to put forward ideas for innovation

Making small, consistent changes to the production process
Team working

Genuine empowerment of workers

Creating and moving away from a management centred approach

Substantial training costs

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What are the benefits of Kiazen

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Workers involved in the day to day production of products tend to spot problems first and can solve them beofre they become a major issue

Improves motivation

Reduces wastage and production costs

Small changes require less capital investment

Small changes tend to be easier to implement

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