Masaaki Imai: Improvement

Masaaki Imai is Japanese business theorist and consultant. Explore interesting quotes on improvement.
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“The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.”

Masaaki Imai

“It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored.”

Masaaki Imai

“The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.”

Masaaki Imai

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management (ed. McGraw Hill Professional, 1997), ISBN 9780071368162

Way , Home , Life

“Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement.”

Masaaki Imai

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition (ed. McGraw Hill Professional, 2012), ISBN 9780071790352