Kaizen

Kaizen

Kaizen means continuous improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life as a whole.  

---Philp Holman & Derek Snee

The Improving Efficiency Pocketbook (提高效率)一書中，
提到Kaizen (改進)這個概念，旨在讓一個組織領導及員工朝著以下幾個目標努力，以提高效率：
Solve problems at their resource

Maintain and improve standards

 Improve housekeeping

 Eliminate waste (p.178)

其中關於good housekeeping的"5S"可做為提高工作效能的參考：

 
Sort out what is necessary from what is unnecessary.

Straighten out the workplace. Make sure everything has a place
and everything is kept in place.

Scrub the workplace. Keep the work site tidy at all times.

Standardise Establish standards for housekeeping and stick to it.
 
Systematise  (p.104)

在談效率時，工作環境的整理和維護是不能忽視的。井然有序的工作環境中比較能讓人集中思緒、充份利用手邊的資源、不浪費不必要的時間尋找物品或檔案。
事實上，作者也指出:
Housekeeping is not just mops and buckets! It relates to your
attention to many aspects of the workplace and systems.
(p.106)

提高效率，改善工作環境，建立良好習慣，務必要做到才行。

延伸閱讀：《整理成功學》