18th Annual Kaizen Congress Kicks Off

The 18th Annual Kaizen Congress began this morning with a welcome reception hosted by the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Kaizen Institute. 

The KAM-KAIZEN program’s launch in 2005 was crucial in encouraging local industry to embrace Kaizen techniques. 

The Kaizen Institute is a multinational organisation that offers consulting and training services to businesses with presences in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Benchmark tours, certification, training, and consultation are all included in its offering.

In the last 18 years, KAM has pushed for the adoption of the Kaizen approach and has partnered with Kaizen Institute Africa to accomplish this goal. 

Continuous development is a never-ending process, KAM Chair Rajan Shah said during the inaugural session. Organisations always strive to improve. In order to make service operations efficient, quality, productivity, and profitability are interdependent. 

Producing goods and services that customers need and want is another aspect of quality. As quality rises, income, costs, and capital employed all rise as well. 

Additionally, he said that as an organization’s efficiency and dependability rise, it enhances the organization’s reputation in the marketplace, results in customer retention, and boosts the customer market share.

likewise these modifications encourage sales volume development, set a provider apart from the competitors, and reduce the provider’s reliance on price rivalry. 

Vimal Shah, chairman of Bidco Africa, who was also present during the event, reaffirmed that Kaizen is a continuous improvement process that focuses on decreasing waste in order to ultimately boost performance. 

The majority of us in business, he said, tend to focus on competitive advantage, but it is crucial that they also consider adopting collaborative advantage. 

As they endeavour to improve their processes for the overall sustainability and improved performance of their enterprises, they may benefit from the collaborative advantage and learn best practises from their peers.