Tag: Imai

What a great time on Thursday with Masaaki Imai! We were hosted by a non-profit organization, SightLife, that has used Lean to improve the...

Today is an exciting day for me, as I'll get to meet a famed Kaizen guru  - Masaaki Imai. We are in Seattle for...

My co-author, Joe Swartz, and I did a soft launch a few weeks back, but we're happy to announce that the full website for...

Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter  -- today would have been the...

It's always great to see stories in the major media outlets about engaging front-line staff in improvement ideas. Recently, we had a piece in...

I volunteered to give a presentation last Friday for the North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management, where  I was able to debut some...

Here is a great video by Masaaki Imai, author of the classic books Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success and Gemba Kaizen: A...

I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...

TL;DR (2026): This interview with Masaaki Imai still matters because it captures an early, unvarnished view of how "respect for people" was practiced--not idealized--by...

Masaaki Imai interview! Masaaki Imai comments on the need to convert from batch to JIT and China 'productivity', among other topics. One highlight: "Kaizen is the means...