Lean‐kaizen public service: an empirical approach in Spanish local governments

MF Suarez Barraza, T Smith… - The TQM Journal, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–Recently, the operations management academic literature has seen articles
focusing on the transfer of “lean” thinking or kaizen concept from the private to the public …

Implementation of Lean‐Kaizen in the human resource service process: A case study in a Mexican public service organisation

MF Suárez‐Barraza, J Ramis‐Pujol - Journal of manufacturing …, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose–Over the last decade, some Mexican public organisations have begun to enter into
a dynamic in which issues such as service quality, ongoing improvement, and internal and …

Digital kaizen: An approach to digital transformation

D Dang-Pham, AP Hoang, DT Vo… - Australasian Journal of …, 2022 - journal.acs.org.au
While digital transformation creates opportunities across all industries, many organisations
and practitioners struggle to grasp what conducting digital transformation entails and seek …

Making the value flow: application of value stream mapping in a Brazilian public healthcare organisation

GL Tortorella, FS Fogliatto, M Anzanello… - Total Quality …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
During the last decade, there has been a demand for public services to enhance
management practices and attain results comparable to those experienced in the private …

Do companies with greater deployment of participation systems use Visual Management more extensively? An exploratory study

C Jaca, E Viles, D Jurburg, M Tanco - International Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
One of the most important enablers of continuous improvement sustainability is ease of
communication, and doing so in a way that can be understood by all employees and allows …

Continuous improvement project within Kaizen: critical success factors in hospitals

F Gonzalez-Aleu, EM Van Aken, J Cross… - The TQM Journal, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Evidence suggests that hospitals are having problems achieving continuous
improvement project (CIP) goals or sustaining their results. Therefore, the purpose of this …

Employee's performance and Kaizen events' success: does supervisor behaviour play a moderating role?

M Kharub, H Gupta, S Rana, O McDermott - The TQM Journal, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The study's goal was to identify the factors contributing to the practical completion
of Kaizen events (KEs). The effect of the work-study man's characteristics, the supervisor's …

[图书][B] Kaizen planning, implementing and controlling

JL Garcia, AM Oropesa - 2017 - Springer
In 1965, Mexico started an industrialization program focused on promoting the
establishment of industries in the northern region. Years later, in 1992, Mexico signed the …

Kaizen philosophy: The keys of the permanent suggestion systems analyzed from the workers' perspective

JA Marin-Garcia, A Juarez-Tarraga… - The TQM …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to perform a context analysis about a specific Kaizen
program, suggestion systems in permanent teams, and identified the barriers and facilitators …

Improving public service delivery in tanzania through kaizen: a review of empirical evidence

GS Bwemelo - 2016 - repository.costech.or.tz
This paper sets out to establish whether KAIZEN practices can contribute to the
enhancement of service quality and productivity in the public sector in Tanzania. Currently …