Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management
by Masaaki Imai

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management
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Author: Masaaki Imai
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-03-01
ISBN: 0070314462
Number of pages: 354
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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Book Review: Go to Gemba in Software Development
Summary: 5 Stars

"Gemba" is a Japanese word meaning "'the real place' where real action occurs: where products are developed ... and made, and where services are provided. [Improvement] should be focused [in gemba] where they'll do the most good."

Software developers and testers: enjoy reading a quality improvement book that puts you and your work at the center. Managers and executives: be refreshed about what your workers need from you, and what you can expect of your workers.

Masaaki Imai has half a century of experience helping companies continuously improve. The quality challenge for software companies is how to interpret these ideas in software development as opposed to manufacturing. Read this book and ask yourself: where is gemba in your company?
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Summary of Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management

When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don't look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba--business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services--the areas of your business where, as the author puts it, the "real action" takes place.

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