Continuous Improvement / Kaizen

Abstract

Continuous Improvement or Kaizen is a concept that is related to methods and activities with the target of incrementally improving the performance of an organization. In Continuous Improvement the focus lies on incremental steps that eventually lead to big improvements over time rather than breakthrough changes. The incremental change is achieved by constantly reflecting and reexamining done work. The concept can also be seen as a continuous effort or general way of thinking. Continuous Improvement is similar to Kaizen, hence the two terms are generally used synonymously

Benefits and Key ideas

Tools

Root Cause Analysis 5 Why PDCA ...

Continous Improvement in Relation to Project Management

Continuous Improvement as an integrated management approach, lessons lernead from projects, capturing of knowledge in the organizational knowledge base, is there a difference of to normal organizations

Application

Where is it mainly used

Limitations

Failure culture is necessary