Commentary--A leading automotive company launched a three-week campaign where engineers across the organization came up with new ideas that saved the company more than $73 million that year. At an ...

If you are seeking a quick and successful lean implementation, forget it. Quite simply, lean implementations frequently are referred to as lean journeys for good reason: They take time, and they are ...

THE word Kaizen is translated from Japanese to mean "continuous improvement." Kaizen events are an organized team effort to improve reliability of a process, reduce setup/lead times, streamline a ...

A lot of the productivity techniques and organizational hacks out there claim to make work easier and more efficient, and they really can—though you have to find just the right one for you. A few ...

Most companies do a decent job of documenting safety and ergonomic issues, but there is much room for improvement when it comes to following through with implementing the corrective actions in a ...

For Plain Vanilla, the studio behind trivia game QuizUp–which famously signed up a million users in its first week on the App Store–it was stopping in the midst of all their success, sitting back, and ...

Considering Torrington’s difficult financial situation, Mayor Owen Quinn’s idea to apply the Japanese business philosophy of “kaizen” to municipal government is worth a try. In a kaizen work culture, ...