What is Lean Kaizen?
Monday Morning blues Have you ever sat down at your desk on a Monday morning and thought, “I’ve got so much work to get through, I don’t know how I’m going to do it? I guess we all have mornings like that. Well at least every Monday! I have a couple of questions for you. What is it that is making you so busy? Could there be a better way of looking at things? What is Lean kaizen? When I first thought about developing “Lean kaizen” I had the notion of helping people really make a difference to their working lives. How could I help people to de-stress and take more control over their own work environment? Enter stage left Lean kaizen. Lean literally means “with no fat “. Kai literally means “change” and zen “for the better”. I had the notion of joining these thoughts together. Lean is if you like the vision of how it could be, and kaizen the way to get there. After I had that idea, Lean kaizen was born. So, kaizen means change for the better or continuous improvement. Very nice, but how d