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Kaizen
guiding the people creativity to fuel business improvements
Sanjeev Dhawan
The way I have seen
Kaizen happening in our midst is a travesty of the philosophy of Kaizen.
Most of the times,
the Kaizen movement is started in the right earnest. Soon, we get to our
favourite past time of chasing numbers (they may be Kaizen numbers).
Getting back to the
roots, Kaizen was supposed to be an opportunity for a person to improve his
work area, work method and work output by lessening the pain he/ she feels
while working.
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Our smaller future
By Sunita Narain Source: Down to
Earth, Mar 15 2009
First came the food crisis,
early last year. As prices of daily bread soared, riots broke out and food
shops ran empty. Countries realized the value of growing food locally. Then,
even as food prices stabilised somewhat (it remains high), oil prices jumped
so high even our normally unflappable finance minister yelped. Since then,
the price has crashed and with economic slow-down promises to stay down. But
the world did learn the pain of high price and shortages. Not enough, of
course, for it to get serious about re-inventing energy security. But learn
it did.
By September 2008, our economic
czars, exhaling from oil-relief, had to hold their breath again. Starting
with Lehman Brothers, the biggest of the big started crashing; every week
brought a new surprise and a different downfall. For once, even the
know-it-alls—the Davos glitterati—seemed uncertain of the future. They still
don’t dare exhale.
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