title: Rapid-fire improvement with short-cycle kaizen.
abstract: Continuous improvement is an attractive idea, but it is typically more myth than reality. SCK is no myth. It delivers dramatic improvements in traditional measures quickly. SCK accomplishes this via kaizens: rapid, repeated, time-compressed changes for the better in bite-sized chunks of the business.
authors.affiliation: Ed Heard and Associates, Brentwood, TN, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heard
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017748:Time Management; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States