Timely radiographic studies are essential to oncology care. At our institution, a safety net hospital in a large metropolitan area, baseline assessment determined that the overwhelming majority of ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

With hospitals feeling the pressure to improve efficiency and lower costs, some are implementing the Kaizen method to streamline processes. Kaizen is among a number of process improvement strategies ...

Kaizen is coming to Carson City. Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement embedded in the Lean management efficiency city operations, after training, City Manager Nick Marano wants. Business ...

Lean Thinking is not just for manufacturing. Non-manufacturing operations are becoming the larger part of the global economy; so is the hidden waste in them. This course can benefit both service ...

Unfortunately there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of kaizen, viewing it only as small incremental improvements. Therefore a new term was introduced into the lean vocabulary: kaikaku.