{"id":61362,"date":"2022-12-27T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailrelay.com\/glossary\/kaizen-method\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:06:04","slug":"kaizen-method","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/mailrelay.com\/en\/glossary\/kaizen-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaizen method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaizen is a Japanese term (\u6539\u5584,) whose literal meaning would be: beneficial change or improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaizen method aims to maximize the production obtained through a constant improvement of the business productive muscle, this is done by locating the inefficient points and solving them.<\/p>\n<p>The method was created in Japan during the 1950s, as an attitude of the Japanese people in favor of the reconstruction of the country after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaizen method has become a reference model in current marketing. The idea of this method is to create actions to continuously improve business strategies and techniques in search of perfection.<\/p>\n<h2>1. The five &#8220;S&#8221; of the Kaizen method<\/h2>\n<p>It is also known as the 5S method, as it takes its name from five Japanese words that begin with that letter: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu and shitsuke. Each one of them represents one of the 5 basic steps that must be observed to implement the Kaizen methodology in any business.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seiri (classify).<\/strong> Differentiate between what is useful and what is useless, to leave what is necessary and remove all the elements that are not needed for completing a task.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seiton (arrange).<\/strong> Order the useful and decide the location of each object or process, in the same way decide what to do with what is useless.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seiso (clean).<\/strong> Clean the work space daily to improve the well-being of workers, reduce accidents and improve the quality of all products.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seiketsu (standardize).<\/strong> Pay attention to personal hygiene to avoid dirt and mess. Improving the well-being of the workforce, in turn, will improve their productivity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shitsuke (self discipline).<\/strong> Promote self-discipline and self-control, so that workers turn the Kaizen philosophy into a habit, both at work and at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is very likely that you will find places where they refer to the 5 &#8220;S&#8221; with its English translation, in that case you will see: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain.<\/p>\n<h2>2. The ten principles of the Kaizen philosophy<\/h2>\n<p>The Kaizen philosophy is based on 10 fundamental principles, which are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You should discard conventional ideas.<\/li>\n<li>You have to make things happen, thinking about how to do them and not why they can&#8217;t be done.<\/li>\n<li>There must be no excuses or justifications from the past, this leads to questioning past practices and using those that really turned out to be good.<\/li>\n<li>If something is wrong or a mistake has been made, you should fix it immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t look for perfection, do it fast.<\/li>\n<li>Creativity before capital, for this use your wisdom and knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Your wisdom increases when you face difficulties, it helps to find solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Ask yourself &#8220;Why&#8221; five times to get to the root of the problem.<\/li>\n<li>The wisdom of many people is more preferable than the knowledge of just one.\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>Finally, never stop improving.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>3. Benefits of the Kaizen method<\/h2>\n<p>Everything we do, we do it for something, to get something; In the Kaizen method this rule remains the same. Among those benefits, we can list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elimination of repetitive and useless processes.<\/li>\n<li>Productivity increase.<\/li>\n<li>Increased satisfaction and recognition by workers.<\/li>\n<li>Promotes talent retention.<\/li>\n<li>The commitment of workers will be reinforced.<\/li>\n<li>Improves the competitiveness of the company.<\/li>\n<li>Customer satisfaction will increase.<\/li>\n<li>It allows quick resolution of problems and errors.<\/li>\n<li>Reduces the number of accidents at work.<\/li>\n<li>It contributes to a better adaptation of processes with technological advances.<\/li>\n<li>It helps to be prepared for the changes that the market may demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-61362","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kaizen method - Mailrelay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kaizen is a Japanese term (\u6539\u5584,) whose literal meaning would be: beneficial change or improvement.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mailrelay.com\/en\/glossary\/kaizen-method\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaizen method - 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