French Proverb of the Day highlights the meaning of “Its by forging that we become a blacksmith.” The saying reflects the ...

Who has tried doing a gemba walk and felt over time they just didn’t add much value? Or that they were OK for a while, but now? It’s a challenge to keep the traditional tools we use for continuous ...

Continuous improvement has become a must-have business mindset to innovate and stay ahead of competition. Working in manufacturing, you probably know kaizen— the Japanese word often translated as ...

Knowledge and experience in quality and continuous improvement are highly valued by today's employers. The principles are being applied in engineering, healthcare, business, service, nonprofits, and ...

Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

It’s one thing to boost test scores in individual schools from year to year. But as districts work to improve under the Every Student Succeeds Act, many are finding that boosting longer-term outcomes ...

That suggestion comes from Jonny Thomson a philosophy teacher and author of Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas. In an article for Big Think, Thomson argues that kaizen is the most effective ...