The Differences Between Kaizen And Traditional Structure Of Business

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We live in an age of entrepreneurship, everyone is trying to start their own business and follow the American dream. However twenty percent of all business doesn’t make it past their first year, and half of the remaining ones will die within five years of their opening. This can be concerning since I personally am interested in running multiple business as a source of income. The fact that you can put thousands of dollars into a failing company can be disconcerting. There is an overlying problem in all companies, the need to improve. In most cases once a company stops improving it becomes stagnant and eventually it will start to regress. To some this idea may seem contradictory but you could compare any business to a fish tank. All companies …show more content…

To start I have chosen to use the article “Building a Quality Culture One Small Step at a Time”, it gives multiple examples of mistakes that were changed to help companies save and make thousands or even millions annually. The biggest surprise of all, they were figured out by the employees or ordinary people looking for a solution. One example being, an airlines flight attendant suggested that they use plain unmarked trash bags instead of ones with the airline logo on them. This one idea resulted in a savings of $300,000 annually. (Maurer, 2013) Here we see something as trivial as no-name trash bags saving the company big bucks. Other examples of this are buying certain supplies in bulk or manufacturing a product differently to cut costs. Although not all improvements cut costs, some changes can unexpectedly bring in millions. This is one of the primary ways business can fix the leaks in their tank, by finding the cracks that are losing the hard earned …show more content…

When the workers are healthy, the atmosphere can change drastically. Many companies are implementing rules that employees need to take a twenty minute walking break every day, or eat a cup of fruit.( Maurer, 2013) While it does not seem like much studies have shown that the little outbursts of exercise not only keep the employees healthy it tends to help them focus too. Some large corporations even go as far as having entire gyms that the employees have free access just for the sake of keeping the workers happy and giving them away to alleviate stress. Just remember a happy fish will always stay in its tank. Kaizen is often applied in physical therapy or in sports training. While it may not seem obvious at first one can see the relations upon further inspection. Sports and therapy are just finding different ways to train to be better, whether it be learning to walk again or throw a perfect curve ball people are always tweaking what they do in order to improve. Keeping the fish inside the tank healthy leads to a better working atmosphere and frankly, happier

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