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Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) for Enhancing Performance to Ensure ROI Retention Todd Drummond
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ver twenty years ago, I struck out to help companies improve their operations through best practices based on lean manufacturing and industrial engineering practices. Helping hundreds of companies improve their operations has been an extremely rewarding experience. After all of the 35 years I have been in this industry, the one constant I have found is that we can continuously learn what is best from successful people and companies. One clear sign of the best-performing companies is they embrace a continuous improvement philosophy, where they firmly believe that what they have been doing is never good enough. They always strive for improvement in every area regardless of current and past performances.
Kaizen is the philosophy of continuous improvement that originated in Japan and that every company should embrace. Regardless of whether someone has decades of experience, here are three key aspects your company should embrace to continuously enhance its overall performance. All departments – sales, design, manufacturing, and admin – can be improved with these strategies: 9 Learn, embrace, and implement lean manufacturing principles in an easy-to-follow and practical manner to improve every area. Too often, the management team gets lost in the weeds of the terminology of lean principles and needs help understanding how to make it work for them in a practical way. The lean principles can be simplified and made practical to use daily. No matter your employees’ skill level, they can all be given easy-to-follow methods for implementing lean principles that will make a real positive difference daily within your company. 9 Learn, embrace, and implement industrial engineering practices. Lean principles are not the same as industrial engineering practices and should not be considered a substitute for proper industrial Continued next page
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