Strategic KAIZEN™: Using Flow, Synchronization, and Leveling [FSL™] Assessment to Measure and Strengthen Operational Performance
by Masaaki Imai
Foreword
BY CHARLIE SHARMAN
I was recently in Bologna, Italy, at Kaizen Institute’s Global KAIZEN™ Award ceremony in a room filled with kaizen practitioners and award nominees from all over the world. I presented on the evolution of the kaizen methodology and its criticalness in both achieving a lean transformation and in strategic planning. Subsequently, I was invited to write this foreword for Masaaki Imai’s new book, Strategic KAIZEN™, his third book to complete the trilogy on a kaizen management strategy as pioneered in Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success (published in 1986) and Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management (published in 1997).
My own kaizen journey coincides with Imai’s first book. I was a young ...
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