How Kaizen principles Help to Deliver Real Innovation

How the application of Kaizen principles to transformative technology delivers real innovation

The overused tendency to describe almost any improvement in a company’s operations as innovative is clearly more hype than reality. Applying technology that is decades old or far from state-of-the-art may be better than what has been done before, but that does not necessarily earn the label of innovation.

In our first white paper; The Kaizen Paradox: How Incremental Improvements Can Impede Innovation, we introduced two of the three Ks from the Toyota Production System; Kaizen (improvement) and Kaikaku (transformation) and examined the interplay between them.

In our second Kaizen White Paper you'll learn:

• Why taking small incremental improvements (Kaizen) are sometimes not enough
• How only by taking an innovative approach (Kakushin) with improvements can you truly transform your logistics and leapfrog past competitors