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Presentation On Quality Guru Masaaki Imai: Presented By: Vishal K Asiya.B Vijay.H Rohit.M Sushil.H

This document provides information about Masaaki Imai, known as the "Lean Guru" and pioneer of Continuous Improvement (CI). Imai is a quality management consultant born in 1930 in Tokyo who wrote the influential book "Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success." He founded the Kaizen Institute to help companies implement kaizen practices and lean management tools. The document outlines Imai's background and contributions to spreading kaizen philosophy globally, as well as the basic principles of kaizen and examples of companies that adopted kaizen models.

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Presentation On Quality Guru Masaaki Imai: Presented By: Vishal K Asiya.B Vijay.H Rohit.M Sushil.H

This document provides information about Masaaki Imai, known as the "Lean Guru" and pioneer of Continuous Improvement (CI). Imai is a quality management consultant born in 1930 in Tokyo who wrote the influential book "Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success." He founded the Kaizen Institute to help companies implement kaizen practices and lean management tools. The document outlines Imai's background and contributions to spreading kaizen philosophy globally, as well as the basic principles of kaizen and examples of companies that adopted kaizen models.

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Presentation on Quality Guru Masaaki Imai

Presented By: Vishal K Asiya.B Vijay.H Rohit.M Sushil.H

Masaaki Imai Management Guru, Kaizen Pioneer, Founder of Kaizen Institute.

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Masaaki Imai (born 1930, in Tokyo) is a consultant in the field of quality management. Known as the Lean Guru and the father of Continuous Improvement (CI). Masaaki Imai has been a pioneer and leader in spreading the Kaizen philosophy all over the world. Mr. Imais contribution has been one of integrating various kaizen management practices, such as Just-in-time, TQM, and TPM.

His book, Kaizen: The Key to Japans Competitive Success (1986) was an instant global bestseller. Mr. Imais sequel book on this subject Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-cost Approach to Management was published in 1997.

Kaizen is the process of incremental, systematic, gradual,and orderly and continous improvement that uses the best of all techniques, tools, systems and concepts.

The basic principles of Kaizen are:

Continuous focus on improvement.


Everyone in the company should be involved. Delighting the customer. Everything should be considered from a total system standpoint.

MAIN CONCEPT OF KAIZEN MODEL (Continuous Improvement)

When there is no problem , there is no potential for improvements

KAIZEN starts with a problem, more precisely the recognition

that a problem exists.

Kaizen Models(KMS) Adopted By Companies:


TOYOTA ROLLS ROYCE THE STANLEY PRODUCTION SYSTEM. FAG ELCETROLUX BEHR BOSCH PRODUCTION SYSTEM(BPS) ARC INTERNATIONAL

Kaizen Institute
Masaaki Imai is the Founder of Kaizen Institute which was established in Switzerland in 1985 . Objective is to help companies implement the practice of kaizen and the various systems and tools known today as Lean Management. Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) is the leading global operational excellence consultancy with over 400 professionals located in offices across 30 countries serving clients in 25 languages.

International Awards and Recognitions

1998 Asia-Pacific Human Resource Development Award. 1999 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize for Gemba Kaizen.

2010 First Honorary Fellow of Quality Control of India .

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