Masaaki Imai Quotes

• It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.

  Masaaki Imai

  Variation, Shifting, Impossible

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• La filosofía Kaizen parte de la base de que nuestra forma de vida -ya sea nuestra vida laboral, social o doméstica- merece ser mejorada constantemente.

  Masaaki Imai

  Philosophy, Home, Kaizen

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• Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mistake, Progress, Impossible

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• El mensaje de la estrategia Kaizen es que no debe pasar un solo día sin que se introduzca algún tipo de mejora en algún lugar de la empresa.

  Masaaki Imai

  Business, Kaizen, Messages

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• Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

  Masaaki Imai

  Maintenance, Improvement, Reason

  Masaaki Imai (2012). “Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Kaizen significa mejora continua con la participación de todos, sin gastar mucho dinero.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Kaizen, Ongoing

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• No se puede hacer kaizen una o dos veces y esperar resultados inmediatos. Hay que comprometerse a largo plazo.

  Masaaki Imai

  Long, Kaizen, Results

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• The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.

  Masaaki Imai

  Jobs, Next Steps, Definitions

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).

  Masaaki Imai

  Believe, Two, Focus

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• Todos los esfuerzos de la dirección para el Kaizen se reducen a dos palabras: satisfacción del cliente.

  Masaaki Imai

  Two, Effort, Satisfaction

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• Tengo la teoría de que entre las grandes empresas occidentales (sobre todo estadounidenses) cuanto más asciende un ejecutivo, más sabiduría pierde y cuando llega a la cima se convierte en un completo idiota. Desde luego, no se merecen ese sueldo escandaloso.

  Masaaki Imai

  Salary, Idiot, Lost

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

  Masaaki Imai

  Change, Organization, Innovation

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• Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Practice, Good Man

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• Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

  Masaaki Imai

  Tools, Problem, Problem Solving

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

  Masaaki Imai

  Tools, Introduction, Toyota

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

  Masaaki Imai

  Quality, Tools, Problem

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.

  Masaaki Imai

  Taken, Keys, Long

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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• I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.

  Masaaki Imai

  Philosophy, Practice, Tools

  Fuente: blog.deming.org

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