Remembering Masaaki Imai - "Kaizen" - Greg Jacobson & Mark Graban of KaiNexus

In this episode, Mark and Greg remember Masaaki Imai, who
recently passed away at 92. They were both deeply influenced by
Mr. Imai and his book "KAIZEN: The Key to Japan's Competitive
Success." Without Greg being given this book by his Emergency
Department leader, there would be no KaiNexus. Greg discusses the
importance of the book to him and others -- and the broad
influence it has had. Mark shares stories about meeting Mr. Imai
(once in Seattle and twice in Japan) and some of the classic
ideas -- that Kaizen means everybody improvement, everywhere
improvement, every day improvement. See Mr. Imai talk about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKMlRJUAJk&ab_channel=KaizenInstitute-SouthAsia%26Africa
They also discuss the connections between Kaizen and Lean books
and practice -- and how Kaizen should be a core part of a Lean
strategy, as it is at Toyota and other companies. Get the book
KAIZEN on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3XAg2mz This approach should be
the key to a hospital's success, or any organization's success --
not just manufacturing and not just in Japan. Mark's blog post
about meeting Mr. Imai:
https://www.leanblog.org/2012/06/meeting-mr-imai/ Greg's journal
article about Kaizen:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00580.x