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Click to view A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to "continuous slow improvement." In the corporate world, it's an efficiency and defect-proofing system often used on ...

22 December 2006 Kaizen is A Japanese term that is used to refer to continuous incremental improvement. The originally Japanese term consists of two words "kai," which means change, and "zen," which ...

But as companies have increasingly focused on streamlining the manufacturing process, the trend is to look upstream to design for possible cost-cutting and timesaving practices. A good place to start ...

As I near the completion of my fifth and final year as executive director of Ski and Snowboard Club Vail I have great appreciation for what we have accomplished and the wonderful partnerships which ...

IN A GOOD YEAR, THE U.S. manufacturing sector might chalkup a 4% overallincrease in productivity. At the plant level, some top-flight produc-tion operations have achieved gains of 20% or more in a 12- ...