Top Int'l Kaizen experts to conduct seminars

Two seminars would be conducted by Kaizen Institute experts Jayanth Murthy and Narasimhan Gopalakrishnan on November 8 and 9. The two seminars titled “Organizational Transformation through the Kaizen Management System” and “Creating Material and Information Flow for Cash Flow.” Details of the seminars are attached.

Kaizen is a Japanese term denoting “improvement for the better,” but its modern connotation is to continually make improvements by observations at the workplace. Kaizen focuses on making improvements through employee observations of how work is done and works on the philosophy that everything could be improved even on a daily basis.

Kaizen creates a courageous belief that no matter how small every improvement counts and no matter how difficult no problem is insurmountable. Kaizen is different to the big bang changes and would try improvements with little or no investment.

Kaizen has been credited with having contributed to the rapid development of Japan, by improving competitiveness even as the Yen was increasing in value and making Japanese products more expensive.

The Japanese management guru Masaaki Imai, published his world famous book “Kaizen: The Secret of Japan’s Competitive Success” which took the world by storm.

Kaizen became a household word and Masaaki Imai created the Kaizen Institute. Today the Kaizen Institute operates in over 50 countries and has over 350 consultants, who have the deepest experience and knowledge of Kaizen and Lean Management.

The two speakers have loads of experience and have consulted in many countries in different industries. With Kaizen becoming very popular in Sri Lanka, this would be a rare opportunity for those who desire to acquire knowledge and techniques of Kaizen to do so.

The emphasis for the first seminar would be on manufacturing, while the second seminar is open to both manufacturing and service.

The seminars have been organised by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Quality and Productivity (SLAAQP) and the administrative functions are handled by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka.

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