Kaizen
- Created by: tanja soulsby
- Created on: 02-06-17 13:41
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- Kaizen
- Continuous form of innovation
- Encourages employees to improve the way they work & processes they use
- Small changes add up over time and lead to innovation
- Encourages employees to improve the way they work & processes they use
- Give workers control over decision making
- Workers encouraged to ask Why? Why? Why? ???? until they reach the root of the problem
- Creates a working environment where innovation can thrive
- Benefits
- Drives innovation
- Company doesn't have to spend lots of time and money on research
- Processes become more efficient continuously
- Drawbacks
- Probably won't lead to innovative new products
- Workers not really encouraged to think about wants and needs of customers
- Kaizen mindset
- Workers focused on making small changes to own job rather than thinking about big changes for the business
- Big innovation leaps rare
- Continuous form of innovation
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