KAIZEN® Institute New Zealand is the leading provider of KAIZEN® and LEAN consultancy, training and coaching in New Zealand. 

Our team of consultants have practical experience in the application of Lean Thinking and are experts in applying the Toyota Production System (TPS). Our team is trained in the use of our advanced Lean techniques, incorporating the latest research and case studies, providing a holistic approach to implementing Kaizen Lean in many different industries.

We at the KAIZEN® Institute support companies of all sizes and industrial segments as well as private and public service organisations seeking to embark on their Lean journey.  

Many organizations use a continuous improvement process that was created in-house. Usually, this method requires that everyone develop a list of projects and then managers assign resources to each project. In the past, this method was often effective enough to allow these companies to compete and to meet their customer demands and expectations. However in the last decade or so, customers have been rapidly changing their expectations. Changing technology and communications systems may be the cause, or it may be that customers just naturally want more, want it faster and want it to cost less.

If this method of continuous improvement has allowed you and your team to stay in the game in the past, but year after year it seems to become more difficult, then you likely realize that you are losing ground. Maintaining your competitiveness in this way is getting harder and harder. The same thinking and actions you have always done in the past will not work in the future. You need a more powerful and effective approach to driving change throughout your organization both culturally and technically.

If your company needs to do more with less, KAIZEN Lean is your answer.

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So picking up my journal of my Japan Kaizen Experience, we’re back to my favourite, the Toyota tour, and the next discussion we had with our hosts was around how Toyota identified what I call “bright ideas” people.

I don't know about you, but I really struggle to knock a nail into wood, without destroying either something or injuring myself in the process. What Toyota does is to recognise those employees that come up with simple labour saving and efficiency boosting ideas and then allows them time and resources to turn their mini innovations and ideas into reality.

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As part of promoting the overall awareness of Lean thinking at Rotorua District Council, they have commissioned a series of promotional posters to place around their facilities.

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Last month’s Asia Pacific Regional meeting in Shanghai was a great opportunity to share learning and to calibrate strategies between our different teams from China, Japan, India, Singapore, Malaysia and ourselves, New Zealand / Australia. Jon Miller, our Global CEO, based in the USA, Gabi, our Global Financial Controller from Switzerland and Luis, one of our IT team members from our Portugal office also joined us.

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This year we make an early start with our Kaizen Practitioner certification as no less than 8 members of the BNZ team completing their training and are awarded their globally recognised qualifications.

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