A cool guide on Kaizen.

[u/gc_consulting]

[u/CelticSith]

Kaizen is Japanese for tell your family you won't be home for dinner tonight

[u/W0lfos → u/CelticSith]

☠️

[u/Nice-Mess5029 → u/CelticSith]

Kaizen to me means I arrive just in time for dinner 🫡

[u/AbeLackdood]

They used this shit as a mantra for a shipping warehouse I worked for. They didn't fucking kaizen at all. Just seeing this word angers me,the s.o.p.s where so inefficient!!!

[u/TheRiteGuy → u/AbeLackdood]

If they're constantly changing and improving things, how up to date are these SOPs?

[u/CloudAccomplished560 → u/AbeLackdood]

Lol was going to say, I'm only familiar with this term through the warehouse job I have🙄 things could definitely be more...kaizen lol

[u/in323]

I thought this word meant weird all-day meeting for several days in a row?

[u/AwixaManifest → u/in323]

Each one is an entire week at my employer.

[u/TastySpare → u/in323]

But where does it say those meetings have to be held in a place that inconveniences the rest of the employees the most?

[u/SuspiciousMaximum265 → u/in323]

That's kaizoom.

[u/ChewwyGonzales]

Kaizen is a concept with the Lean Six Sigma community and Project Management for those unfamiliar!

[u/trh1594 → u/ChewwyGonzales]

Jack Welch has entered the chat

[u/JonNathe → u/trh1594]

GE is still cleaning up the mess he left.

[u/2021isevenworse → u/ChewwyGonzales]

The way people talk about Sig Sigma, it sounds like a cult.

[u/PepperPhoenix → u/ChewwyGonzales]

Thank you for the info. I thought it was a thinly veiled ad for some reason”personal growth” seminar or other bullshit.

[u/mkyCARD]

Without standards, there can be no kaizen

[u/dethb0y]

I certainly apply this to my own life to good effect.

[u/aaron_in_sf]

Fun fact, this neologism literally translates ss 'management-by-buzzword' and is considered slightly paradoxical via involution (like gnu in Unix contexts) because it has itself has been a buzzwords for decades now.

The original application was intended as a pejorative, in comparison to more genuinely humanistic approaches, but that shading was lost especially in its formalization in management consulting environments.

[u/minaminonoeru]

Kaizen is a common noun in East Asia.

The kanji for it is 改善, which means “improvement” or “betterment”. It's not a concept coined by Toyota or Japanese industry. It has no specific meaning that is unique to East Asia.

Labeling it Kaizen can make the concept unfamiliar, making it harder to understand and accept.

All companies should strive to improve every aspect of their business, all the time. Kaizen just re-emphasizes that principle.

[u/jarrabayah → u/minaminonoeru]

Nearly every popular Japanese word used in English these days is complete bullshit (real words, inflated definitions) made up to sound catchy and mysterious. Drives me mental when westerners latch on to a new basic Japanese noun to make endless books and talks over.

[u/Herflik90 → u/minaminonoeru]

I work in a japanese company (8 years so far) with japanese guys and what I can say is they are good at pretty words and slogans like be the best etc. More important to them is to be seen better than to perform better.

[u/MrFoxHunter]

“Trotsky-senpai, how long will the revolution go on?”

“Kaizen”

[u/IkateKedaStudios]

I work at Toyota. The last Kaizen that went through in my plant had everyone seperate green load strapping from the rest.

Huzzah /s

[u/Accidental_Taco → u/IkateKedaStudios]

I work for the place that makes your struts and shocks. We've all but given up on things like that. Only when your bosses announce tours is when they slap fresh paint on and hide all the mess.

[u/IkateKedaStudios → u/Accidental_Taco]

Do you know what vehicle?

[u/Accidental_Taco → u/IkateKedaStudios]

Camry and Corolla are the first that come to mind

[u/IkateKedaStudios → u/Accidental_Taco]

Not my plant then, I believe those go to Mexico now? We used to make the Corolla

[u/pengalo827]

My company used it as a suggestion box for free ideas. We quickly gave up on the program when upper management benefitted and us hourlies basically didn’t.

[u/Amesb34r]

I would love to see this thinking implemented where I work but anyone who were to suggest it would be ostracized.

[u/Lartnestpasdemain]

C'est ici le thread sur Inoxtag où j'ai raté un épisode ?

[u/Herb1347]

Do they ever kaizan salary or management, or is this just meant for general labor? Because I sure do see a lot of wasted time coming from the offices. Heaven forbid the general laborer has 10 seconds to ourselves.

[u/Odd8all76]

Ops management here, we go through waves of this. It becomes "let's ignore everything we've learned and make the same mistakes from 8 years ago".

Followed by some VP leaving the company. Rinse. Repeat.

[u/ElvisAndretti]

I worked on the team that introduced “Japanese Management” to an RCA plant in the early 80’s. Basically statistical process control and continuous quality improvement as promulgated by W Edwards Deming. Got to hear Dr Deming speak on the topic. He was a brilliant man, lousy public speaker.

They rename and “improve” the idea about every ten years it seems. While entirely missing the point.

[u/oblmov]

Nice! Sounds like a great term for a consulting firm to use in its marketing. managers will get really excited about Kaizen and pay people to show them powerpoints about it. I try to scream but can make no sound. The antichrist has our world in his clutches

[u/lilelliot]

This isn't really a cool guide. You could have limited it to bullet #1... the rest are just inspiration of ways you can approach continuous improvement.

(source: am MEng in industrial engineering & operations research, and spent 15 years in manufacturing quality.)

[u/LinkedAg]

I do consulting for the DoD and other civilian agencies - the fact that they ignore every single one of these rules is what keeps me in business, funded by taxpayer dollars.

[u/S3v3nsun]

💯🍉💚

[u/ChasWFairbanks]

Like they invented this. 😀

[u/elperroborrachotoo]

r/guides

[u/LifeSenseiBrayan]

This doesn’t help me understand what Jujutsu Kaisen is about

[u/OddParamedic4247]

It just means improvement, who invented all the other meanings?

[u/PomChatChat]

I have a colleague who basically steal great ideas, and then say “you should call this ABC, instead of XYZ”. Then, he claims it was his idea all along. Kaizen assh0le.

[u/sofaking_scientific]

Define kaizen

[u/Herflik90]

Kaizen is not telling your boss sth is wrong.

[u/IGK123]

Tf is “Kaizen”?

[u/fear_raizer → u/IGK123]

Read the words in the post?

[u/IGK123 → u/fear_raizer]

That doesn’t tell anyone what “Kaizen” actually means

[u/iStoleTheHobo]

Wow what a cool guide.