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How to Sustain Kaizen Improvements: 7 Proven Ways

How many times have you witnessed a successful Kaizen event on the shop floor, in a hospital, or in an office where you made significant improvements, delivered presentations, and celebrated accomplishments?

Then, a few months later, you return to the same area and find the improvements are gone. Everything looks the same as before, and all that hard work seems wasted.

Why does this happen? What should we do when Kaizen improvements fail to last? And most importantly, who should we hold accountable?

Why Kaizen Improvements Fail to Sustain

As Lean practitioners, we know we shouldn’t…

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