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	Interview with Masaaki Imai
		Masaaki Imai was born in Tokyo in 1930.
		Imai: Managers often avoid going to gemba because they don't want to be embarrassed by their ignorance.
		Imai: I can say that 99.9 percent of all the companies in the world today are obsessed with a growth mentality.
	www.qualitydigest.com /june97/html/imai.html (1536 words)

	Masaaki Imai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masaaki Imai, a quality management consultant, was born in Tokyo in 1930.
		From 1976 to 1986, Imai served as president of the Japan Federation of Recruiting and Employment Agency Associations.
		In 1986, Imai established the Kaizen Institute to help Western companies introduce kaizen concepts, systems and tools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masaaki_Imai (222 words)

	activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Masaaki Imai is Chairman of the KAIZEN Institute, which was established in 1986 to help western companies to introduce KAIZEN concepts, systems, and tools.
		Imai has consulted with companies outside of Japan to assist them in their process of introducing change and continual improvement.
		Imai was Chairman of the Cambridge Corporation, an international management consulting and executive recruiting firm that he founded in 1962.
	www.snqc.org /ACTIVITIES/KaizenSeminar/Imai.htm (525 words)

	Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Low-cost Approach to Management by Masaaki Imai
		Masaaki Imai, the crusading proponent of kaizen and head of the Kaizen Institute in Japan, fills his follow-up work with exhausting detail — so exhausting, in fact, that only the most dedicated apostles of the theory will want to take up Gemba Kaizen.
		Imai reduced much of his theory to an alphabet soup of insights: What needed most improvement in most businesses, he argued, was QCD, or Quality, Cost and Delivery.
		Imai relates how he figured out why he had not received several important faxes at a certain hotel.
	www.strategy-business.com /press/16635507/17822 (695 words)

	Masaaki Imai - The Manufacturer.com - Promoting best practices in manufacturing
		One of those is Masaaki Imai, founder and chairman of the Kaizen Institute.
		Mr Imai believes that the journey towards JIT can be broken down into six or seven phases, but, like Columbus, it’s difficult to know where you are without any criteria.
		One of the things he is trying to do through the Kaizen Institute is offer manufacturers a diagnosis of where they are at every stage of the journey, and a prescription for moving on to the next stage.
	www.themanufacturer.com /uk/detail.html?contents_id=2496 (1440 words)

	Evolving Enterprise - Summer 1998: DataWorks Q & A
		Masaaki Imai, chairman of the Kaizen Institute of Japan and the author of a best-selling book on a concept that revolutionized American manufacturing, takes aim at improving quality while reducing cost in his latest book, "Gemba Kaizen."
		Imai now sees that in this period of growth, American businesses are in danger of returning to pre-reengineering cycles of overhiring and investing in expensive equipment or technology.
		Imai's latest book, "Gemba Kaizen," picks up where "Kaizen" left off, introducing the latest quality-improvement methods and focusing on their application in making products and rendering services the core activities of your business.
	www.lionhrtpub.com /ee/ee-summer98/qanda.html (1619 words)

	The 'Lean Guru' and the Father of 'Continuous Improvement' — Masaaki Imai — to Present at Phoenix Seminars ...
		Celebrating his 20th anniversary as the world-renowned leader and proponent of the KAIZEN philosophy, Masaaki Imai -- the "Lean Guru" and the father of "Continuous Improvement" -- will be the key presenter at two seminars to be held next week at ON Semiconductor's (Nasdaq: ONNN) Phoenix facility.
		Imai will be available to the media for interviews on Wednesday, Sept. 7 during the morning and Thursday, Sept. 8 in the afternoon.
		Imai and instructors from the KAIZEN Institute will present at two closed seminars sponsored by the Arizona Quality Alliance (AQA) and ON Semiconductor scheduled for Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 at ON Semiconductor's Phoenix facility.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Sept_2/ai_n15340648 (374 words)

	Kaizen - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Large-scale preplanning and extensive project scheduling are replaced by smaller experiments in improvement, which can be rapidly adapted as new improvements are suggested.
		Masaaki Imai made the term famous in his book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success.
		This economics or finance-related article is a stub.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kaizen (454 words)

	Achieve Breakthrough Performance Through Six Sigma: Saturday, May 08, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One keynote from Japan, Masaaki Imai, wrote the book on Kaizen principles (the standard in manufacturing process improvement and is now being used in the IT...
		Masaaki Imai is Chairman of the KAIZEN Institute, which was established in 1986 to help companies to introduce KAIZEN concepts, systems, and tools.
		Imai has consulted with many companies outside of Japan and assisted them in their process of introducing change and continual improvement.
	www.sixthsigma.com /weblog/2004_05_08_blog.htm (943 words)

	Interview: Masaaki Imai: Shed Rigid Thinking
		Masaaki Imai: Dramatic changes are required to meet competitive challenges of today, but what use are they if your operations get disrupted, employees lose morale, and gains that you need to bolster strategy are fritted away.
		Imai: Inherently, Kaizen is capable of serving as a strategic tool.
		Imai: When the top management is convinced that it needs Kaizen and is willing to commit itself to it.
	www.india-today.com /btoday/20000522/interview.html (980 words)

	G u r u s o n l i n e - E n g l i s h (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Imai revealed this management secret in 1986 in a book in English that was very successful at the time in the west.
		Imai rejects the posture of a guru, but he is not timid to talk.
		Imai does not reject rupture, he confesses that it is not his main focus.
	www.gurusonline.tv /uk/conteudos/imai.asp (1197 words)

	QFD Photos 1
		Masaaki Imai's Kaizen Institute sponsors QFD training by Yoji Akao.
		Masaaki Imai's Kaizen Institute sponsors QFD training by Yoji Akao at Meade Imaging, August 28, 1987.
		Masaaki Imai's Kaizen Institute sponsors QFD training by Yoji Akao and Tadashi Ohfuji.
	www.mazur.net /photos.htm (585 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mr Masaaki Imai, Founder Chairman of the Kaizen Institute, has written the foreword to the book.
		Masaaki Imai, often referred to as the "Kaizen guru", is the revered Japanese father of Kaizen, or continuous improvement.
		Imai served as president of the Japan Federation of Recruiting and Employment Agency Associations.
	www.indiainfoline.com /bize/crch.html (322 words)

	Masaaki Imai spoke at the Share Best Practice Conference in Dubai on May 13 \| KAIZEN Institute
		Masaaki Imai, the Chairman and Founder of the KAIZEN Institute spoke of how manufacturing and service companies could become World-Class organizations by Implementing the 'Commonsense, Low-Cost KAIZEN Approach to Management'.
		Masaaki Imai was invited by the Department of Economic Development as a keynote speaker at the Share Best Practice Conference which was held on the 13th and the 14th of May in Dubai.
		Imai has traveled around the globe holding seminars and running workshops.
	www.ameinfo.com /6258.html (632 words)

	Rediff On The Net Business Interview / Masaaki Imai, chairman, Kaizen Institute, Tokyo, Japan
		Called the Father of Kaizen, Imai, 69, propogates his philosophy amongst corporates worldwide: sensible practices at workplace can improve bottomlines more than mindless investments in technology and manpower.
		On his second visit to India in six months, Imai recently held an interactive session with a host of CEOs of small, medium and big enterprises, sensitising them to his philosophy.
		Imai's book Kaizen -- The Key to Japan's Success was translated into 14 languages.
	www.rediff.com /business/1999/sep/30kaizen.htm (1196 words)

	An article on Kaizen a Japanese management philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In his Kaizen: the Key to Japan's Competitive Success published in 1986 that introduced Kaizen to the Western corporate world, Masaaki Imai defined it as: "a means of continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life.
		This thought is expressed in Imai's best selling sequel, Gembakaizen: "Gembakaizen is when Kaizen is used in the gemba, for which there are three basic steps—pay attention to housekeeping, eliminate waste and standardize," says he.
		Masaaki Imai, the founder of Kaizen was in India recently.
	lifepositive.com /Mind/work/corporate-management/kaizen-management.asp (1137 words)

	Amazon.com: Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management: Books: Masaaki Imai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Indeed, Imai advocates the removal of all those peripheral things (muda) that cloud the focus of an organization.
		Some of the principles, such as the need for good housekeeping, seem simplistic, but Imai is on solid ground, demonstrating the practicality of gemba kaizen with a number of abbreviated case studies.
		Imai is right to stress the importance of the Gemba for operational excellence and he gives some nice tools and examples to illustrate the Gemba's importance.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0070314462?v=glance (1477 words)

	KAIZEN Institute: Livros e Artigos Técnicos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Using more than 100 examples of KAIZEN in action, 15 corporate case studies, and 50 charts and graphs, Mr.
		Imai examines step by step all the roles KAIZEN plays.
		Imai provides clear, practical insights into how managers at all levels can cooperate with employees in the gemba (workplace) to improve quality, reduce costs, and satisfy today ’s demanding customers.
	www.kaizen-institute.com /buecher01.98.html (137 words)

	The father of Kaizen speaks!
		he 73-year-old mind of Masaaki Imai runs razor sharp belying the frailty of his small frame.
		However, Imai, the founder of a leading international management and executive recruiting firm, and consultant to over two hundred companies, realized that the concept had neither been digested nor well implemented.
		According to Imai, 90 per cent of all corporate problems can be solved using common sense and improving quality while reducing cost through the elimination of waste is the only option for survival.
	inhome.rediff.com /money/2005/jan/28spec2.htm (2039 words)

	Save $9.97! Save Â£5.10! Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management
		In addition to the 10 Rules for Gemba Kaizen, the following Imai quote is one of my favorites: "A lack of the five S's in gemba indicates inefficiency, muda, insufficient self-discipline, low moral, poor quality, high costs, and an inability to meet delivery terms."
		Author Masaaki Imai argues that companies can become more profitable by constantly looking for efficiencies, instead of seeking huge leaps, as is the Western custom.
		Imai makes compelling arguments, and supports them with a number of case studies and real world examples that show kaizen in action.
	www.hackcraft.net /bookref?urn:isbn:0070314462 (328 words)

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