Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. I’ve always remembered something I read in a book many years ago about the Japanese concept of “ Kaizen &# – small improvements (hence, the little bear).

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 9, 2024

Continual improvement with Kaizen This idea of continual improvement has been a guiding light for Sumbal’s career. He’d come to see the capabilities of his middle managers and senior managers in a different light, and he could now be consistent in supporting them so they’d keep developing too.”

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician, by Fritz Scheuren , NORC-University of Chicago. – 2012 ASA Deming Lecture by Dr. Jeff Wu on Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology – A Historical Look at Deming’s Career: Lecture by J. 2017 ASA Deming Lecture, W. Edwards Deming the man and Deming’s ideas.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The first-generation of the learning organization reached its nadir with the continuous improvement movement launched by W.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. Aspiring to a global career.

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