By Enrico C. Mina Organizations that want to make Kaizen or continuous improvement a way of life have to undertake a major cultural change. Such change is neither fast nor easy, and requires a step-by-step transition through five phases: Phase 1: Decide – The senior management, led by the owner/general manager, company president,…
By Jose S. Villegas If we will be committing time, efforts, and resources to a problem-solving endeavor, would we not make sure that we are pursuing the right problem? Is there a way to know that the problem we are addressing is correct? Is there a systematic approach to make…
By Jose S. Villegas When people talk about kaizen, the word quality comes to mind. In Kaizen we don’t limit the concern of improvement to quality but to everything that will improve the business system. As our company name “Kaizen Management System” implies our concern is the improvement of the…
By Jose S. Villegas It was mentioned in the last editorial that corporations can last for hundreds and even thousands of years. There are companies, still living, that are more than one thousand years old. So companies therefore unlike humans can be eternal. Thus among others, it was suggested that…
By Jose S. Villegas It is not customary for people to think of companies as something that will last for tens of hundreds of years. Founders of companies will probably have thought their creations would outlive them by two or three lifetimes. But corporations, although manmade, have a potential to…
