
Gemba Kaizen

Kaizen is a state of continuous improvement where people naturally look for ways to improve poorly performing practices.
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Like Steven Spear describing the Toyota environment as a community of scientists in The High-Velocity Edge, an organization that only Plans and Does can never really improve.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

Like Steven Spear describing the Toyota environment as a community of scientists in The High-Velocity Edge, an organization that only Plans and Does can never really improve.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Eventually, this group of ideas formed the core of the now world-famous Toyota Way: •Kaizen: continuous improvement (predating Shewhart but perhaps inspired by Sakichi reading Henry Ford’s book). •Jidoka: the machine stops when there’s a problem. •Andon cord: any worker can stop the assembly line when there’s a problem. •Go to gemba:** the supervis
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