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Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued

Is it possible to suggest that Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health? While it may be heresy to say this, recent evidence from Japan and elsewhere suggests that it's time to question these methods.

Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. Japanese manufacturers in the 1950s had a reputation for poor quality, but through a culture of analytical and systematic change Japan was able to go from worst to first. Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer…

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 Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued

Is it possible to suggest that Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health?

iSixSigma

To help you increase business efficiency by providing engaging, educational and entertaining content. Our publishing focus areas include Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, project management, change management…and a host of other process improvement methodologies.

Lean Blog

We're working to make the world a better place through Lean… better processes, better leadership, better workplaces… and better results! Oh, and we'd like to have some fun while we're doing that. Welcome to Mark Graban's Lean Blog, a site that was started in January 2005 to host news, commentary, and discussion about “Lean” – the methodology and management system based on the Toyota Production System.

Lean Global Network

LGN is a community of lean thought leaders and practitioners with the goal of making things better by advancing lean thinking and practice throughout the world. Founded by Jim Womack and Dan Jones in 2007...

Old Lean Dude

A blog about understanding the Toyota production system and gaining its full benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy".

Planet Lean

Planet Lean is the official online magazine of the Lean Global Network, launched in February 2014 as a platform to share LGN's knowledge of and experience with lean thinking and practice around the world.

Six Sigma Daily

Our goal is simple and focused: deliver fresh, relevant and timely information to those seeking the latest and greatest Six Sigma news and insights.

Lean Enterprise Institute

The Lean Enterprise Institute Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Cambridge, MA, with a mission to make things better through lean thinking and practice.

Lean Pathways

Find all the tools you require to train and to implement Lean production systems in your workplace.

Michel Baudin's Blog

Ideas from manufacturing operations.

Curious Cat

The Curious Cat Management Improvement blog exists to encourage the adoption of customer focused continual improvement management practices and to help those adopting such practices to succeed.

Gemba Academy

The founding partners of Gemba Academy come with lean consulting, lean and six sigma training, and executive level lean transformation experience. This is the Gemba Academy difference: we're lean and six sigma experts first, who then learned how to create great training videos.

GoLeanSixSigma.com

Lean Six Sigma Training & Certification that makes it easy for you and your teams to start improving processes right away.

JFlinch

We help teams accelerate their lean journey by solving the most challenging problems.

KaiNexus

KaiNexus empowers leading organizations in every industry to start, spread and sustain their improvement cultures.

Kevin Meyer

Life and leadership at the nexus of lean and zen.

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