An Empirical Investigation of Kaizen Event Effectiveness: Outcomes and Critical Success Factors

This research presents results from a multi-site field study of 51 Kaizen event teams in six manufacturing organizations. Although Kaizen events have been growing in popularity since the mid 1990s, to date, there has been no systematic empirical research on the determinants of Kaizen event effectiv...

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Main Author: Farris, Jennifer A.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30278
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12292006-131435/