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Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The nature of technology development might also provide some pointers as to how learning at work should change. “The concept of superjobs takes this shift one step further.
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Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.
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The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. Call it "customer kaizen.". To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?"
Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.
What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. It consists of five key actions.
It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. The Kaizen events create not only fresh ideas but also a spirit of learning and cooperation through the company.
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” Process and methodology debates have turned into the operational challenge of how best to boost people’s capabilities. Another clear difference is that these kaizen efforts, unlike their Japanese predecessors, are more customer-in than internal-process-out.
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