Masaaki Imai spoke at the Share Best Practice Conference in Dubai on May 13
- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, May 30 - 2002 at 11:59
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Masaaki Imai, the Chairman and Founder of the KAIZEN Institute spoke of how manufacturing and service companies could become World-Class organizations by Implementing the 'Commonsense, Low-Cost KAIZEN Approach to Management'.
Masaaki Imai was invited by the Department of Economic Development as a keynote speaker at the Share Best Practice Conference which was held on the 13th and the 14th of May in Dubai. Imai presented the KAIZEN strategies, concepts and systems and demonstrated how the KAIZEN approach could help any organization to achieve word class.
Imai emphasized that KAIZEN is a strategy for continual improvement. Practicing KAIZEN enhances quality of the product or service , lowers costs and speeds up delivery. It is based on simple and common sense concepts that relies essentially on standardization, good housekeeping and waste elimination. KAIZEN involves everyone at the organization including top management, middle management, supervisors and workers. By eliminating waste in inventory, transport, motion, overproduction, and rejects the process is changed into a lean process or a Just-In-Time process. KAIZEN requires other systems to be implemented as well, these are TQM and TPM.
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, News EditorThursday, May 30 - 2002 at 11:59 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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Mr. Masaaki Imai the author of the two best seller books, "KAIZEN: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success", published in 1986, and "GEMBA KAIZEN: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management", published in 1997, was a consultant in the USA in the seventies and the eighties and played a major role in transferring the Japanese management techniques into a large number of US companies. He now runs the KAIZEN Institute which is based in Tokyo, Japan and has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and now in the Middle East. Mr. Imai has traveled around the globe holding seminars and running workshops. He has helped many companies to become world-class organizations.
KAIZEN in the Middle East
KAIZEN Institute is represented in the Middle East by a Jordanian company, the "Integrated Engineering and Management systems" based in Amman. The company's general manager, Mohammad Ajlouni will soon become the first Middle East certified KAIZEN Consultant. Mohammad Ajlouni has established contacts in Saudi Arabia and Dubai to locally represent KAIZEN Institute in these countries. He is seeking to establish contacts in other Middle East countries for KAIZEN representation. His contact information is:
Mohammad Ajlouni
P.O.Box 9119 Amman 11191 Jordan
Tel 96277414539 Fax 96264650122
KAIZEN in the Middle East
KAIZEN Institute is represented in the Middle East by a Jordanian company, the "Integrated Engineering and Management systems" based in Amman. The company's general manager, Mohammad Ajlouni will soon become the first Middle East certified KAIZEN Consultant. Mohammad Ajlouni has established contacts in Saudi Arabia and Dubai to locally represent KAIZEN Institute in these countries. He is seeking to establish contacts in other Middle East countries for KAIZEN representation. His contact information is:
Mohammad Ajlouni
P.O.Box 9119 Amman 11191 Jordan
Tel 96277414539 Fax 96264650122
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