Masaaki Imai

Thinkers1930 to 2023Management consultant

Works

  • Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success, 1986

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A Japanese management consultant who introduced kaizen, continuous improvement through many small changes involving everyone, to Western managers, and who founded the Kaizen Institute in 1985. His book is a practitioner's synthesis of Japanese practice, not research.

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