Sustaining Process Improvement Through Kaizen Events

One of the most difficult aspects of introducing and implementing Kaizen strategy is assuring its continuity.  When a company introduces something new, such as quality circles, or total quality management (TQM), it experiences some initial success, but soon such success disappear like fireworks on summer night and after a while nothing is left. Kaizen concentrates at improving the process rather than at achieving certain results. Such managerial attitudes and process thinking make a major difference in how an organization masters change and achieves improvements.  For this reason, when focusing on continuous improvement, there must be certain mechanisms in place.  For example, meetings discussing weekly progress, specific contributions by employees, furthermore, the overall goal should be included in the roll out process.        

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