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Do Not Remove: What a Kaizen Binder Taught Me in Japan
On a factory table in Japan, in December 2019, there was a binder. White cover, the word KAIZEN in big orange letters, a photo of cherry blossoms underneath. Inside the front cover, someone had printed a word cloud — IMPROVEMENT, DEMING, PDCA, TOYOTA — and a hand-drawn PDCA with a finger pointing at it. Someone had put real care into the cover. This was not a binder shoved in a cabinet to satisfy an auditor […] The post Do Not Remove: What a Kaizen Binder Taught Me in Japan by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog by Mark Graban.
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