Kaizen is the practice of continuous
improvement originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his
book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986. Today it is
recognised worldwide as an important pillar of an organisation’s
long-term competitive strategy.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry
of Industry and Trade, Mr Uledi Musa said in Dar es Salaam that the
ministry in collaboration with the Japan International Corporation
Agency (JICA), will on Monday award manufacturing enterprises for
successfully implementing the philosophy.
Also at the ceremony, would be 13 Kaizen
Master Trainers and two Kaizen trainers who proved superior in
imparting the concept to the stakeholders will be awarded.
“Kaizen philosophy has proved to be an
efficient platform in boosting quality and productivity in manufacturing
enterprises in just three years of the pilot project executed in 42
firms in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Morogoro,” he said.
With the industrialisation drive
initiated by the fifth government, it was important for both public and
private sector to understand and apply the philosophy in all business
firms and manufacturing sector in general.
Tanzania seeks to introduce the
philosophy into the country not only in the industrial sector but also
spread it into each Tanzanian style of working
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