Kaizen Consulting, Online: Lean Web Design
Web sites can benefit from the same principles that make Kaizen so valuable in factories. Learn how one Kaizen consulting firm is applying those principles to their own site.
(PRWEB) October 28, 2005 -- What happens when a Kaizen consulting firm turns its focus on quality, cost and speed inwards, on itself? In the new three-part article "Lean Website Design" on the corporate blog of Gemba Research, Jon Miller takes up the task of conducting Kaizen on his own company's website and finds out that the Lean manufacturing principles apply surprisingly well to the organization and flow of information on a website.
You can read the article on Gemba's Kaizen blog, Gemba Panta Rei: http://www.gembapantarei.com/archives/000249.html
Kaizen is a philosophy and methodology of continuous improvement that originated in post-war Japan and is based on the teachings of Edwards Deming, Taiichi Ohno and others. It stresses making many small changes rapidly and testing them out for effectiveness by direct observation of the process and interaction with the customer. Originating in manufacturing, "Lean" focuses on cutting out waste from all processes and making material and information flow quickly and smoothly, defect-free, just in time to the customer.
About Gemba Research
Gemba Research is a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations build competitiveness through Kaizen. Since 1998 Gemba has helped over 100 firms in 11 countries implement Toyota Production System (or "Lean") principles to manufacturing and transactional processes. Jon Miller is a founding member of Gemba Research who has focused his career on Kaizen since 1993.
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