Shingijutsu-Kaizen: The Art of Discovery and Learning

by Ralph C. Wood, Michael Herscher, Bob Emiliani

For more than 28 years, Kaizen consultants from Shingijutsu USA Corporation have been helping manufacturing and service organizations improve processes by teaching people the methods and tools of flow production.This book is a humble attempt to share the spirit, mindset, and methods of Shingijutsu-Kaizen and their approach to improving the human condition. You will learn how unique and sincere Shingijutsu sensei are as they work to eliminate waste from business processes.Shingijutsu-Kaizen teaches people how to think. You will learn, as never before, how to identify and correct abnormal conditions by “trystorming” -- rapid, hands-on trial-and-error testing and experimentation. It is the most powerful way togrow as a person while simultaneously improving both business and humanity.Efforts must begin at the genba with the intent to master the basics. Then, one can move forward to eliminate waste in larger scale activities.We hope this book will inspire and motivated you to learn how to eliminate waste and improve both business and humanity.

130 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2015

About the author

Ralph C. Wood is a scholar of theology and English literature whose work focuses on Christian writers, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, George Herbert, and Dorothy Sayers. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from East Texas State College in 1965 and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1975. After teaching English at North Park College in Chicago, he held academic posts in religion at Wake Forest University, Samford University, Regent College in Vancouver, and Providence College in Rhode Island. In 1998 he became University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University, where he continues to teach and write. Wood’s publications include The Gospel According to Tolkien and Tolkien among the Moderns. His awards include the Associated Church Press Award of Excellence (2010) and the Lionel Basney Award (2011). He is recognized as one of the most original Tolkien scholars on the religious dimensions of his work.

Reviews

[Samra d. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not amazed by this book at all, as I was expected to be. The content itself and examples are very good but juts the writing of it all could be done in such better way. The book needs better flow, the 3 main examples of kaizen which are 3 separate chapters could use a diagrams, drawings, some visual matarial. The focus and writing of the conent is very light and not the best executed.  For someone learning about kaizen, would not recommend this book.