Welcome to KAIZEN® Institute New Zealand

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.  

About Kaizen

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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The Boys have it

It has been a busy start to the year with our Kaizen College as a number of continuous improvement practitioners enrol for our Kaizen Lean certification.

It is also a time where a number of our students achieve their goal of obtaining our globally recognised Kaizen Practitioner qualification, which is a combination of three training seminars out of selection of four.

KINZ Networking Event – Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC)

On April 12th LIC hosted a networking event for friends and clients of KINZ. 17 people representing sectors as diverse as banking, manufacturing, communications, distribution, power infrastructure and council services joined our hosts. We toured three of LIC’s facilities in the Waikato including the Morrinsville depot, laboratory facility in Riverlea and head office site in Newstead.

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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Foundations – New College Seminar!

Following last month’s newsletter article, ‘Managing Your Productivity’, the Kaizen Institute is pleased to announce the first public two day seminar on TPM Foundations. If you found the article interesting or even thought provoking, you will now be able to see for yourself in our trademark ‘Learn by Doing’ style. The seminar is being hosted by the Rotorua Aquatic Centre, one of Australasia's finest Swimming Pool Centres, where we will have access to their plant and equipment for our training needs. The seminar runs on 2nd and 3rd May 2012.

Lean for Local Government – Pursuing Service Excellence

Traditionally we see Lean thinking and Kaizen as tools and philosophies that are applied to manufacturing operations. The widespread adoption of Lean thinking in many industries has demanded that these traditional manufacturing tools and techniques be adapted to suit service oriented industries, including Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Government.

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Definition of KAIZEN

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Gemba Kaizen: Second Edition

The long-awaited update of the landmark work on Gemba Kaizen!! Read more

Lean Benchmarking Tours: Japan

The Japan Kaikaku Experience benchmarking tours are an integral part of the services offered by the KAIZEN Institute. Join participants from around the world on a remarkable tour and learning experience by visiting the best practices in Japan. Learn more please click here.  

Public tour dates - 

  • July 22-28, 2012
  • August 19-25, 2012
  • November 4-10, 2012

Customized Tours available - focused on sector and operational needs. Contact us at: kaizentours@spam.kaizen.com

 

Japan Study Tour 2009

Follow Richard Steel's journey on the Benchmarking Japan Study Tour 19-24 October 2009

Day 1: Toyota Tsutsumi Plant

This year’s October’s KAIZEN & Lean Japan benchmarking tour ran from  19th-24th October. The tour began with the group assembling at the Castle Plaza hotel in Nagoya. Nagoya is the heartland of Toyota, with the majority of the motor plants, subsiduaries and trucks and industrial division within an hour of the bustling city centre.

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Publications & Training

KAIZEN Institute publishes new book about Total Flow Management and Lean Management

New Book!

Total Flow Management: Achieving Excellence with KAIZEN® and Lean Supply Chains This new book describes the application of the principles of Flow, Synchronization and Levelling to full Supply Chains. Author: Euclides A. Coimbra

KAIZEN Forum: Lean Management in Administration and Service Industries

KAIZEN Forum

Lean and KAIZEN in the Healthcare sector

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Contact

CEO: Danie Vermeulen; 0274 366664
Email: dvermeulen@spam.kaizen.com

Richard Steel; 0274 515298
Email: rsteel@spam.kaizen.com

KAIZEN Institute NZ
15a Vestey Drive, Mt Wellington
Auckland 1060

PO Box 62561, Greenlane
1546, New Zealand

Tel: 09 588 5184