Skip to content
EntityQ1627176· pop 7· linked from 3 articles

Kaikaku (改革), is the Japanese term for "radical change". In business, kaikaku is concerned with making fundamental and radical changes to a production system, unlike kaizen which is focused on incremental changes.

~4 min read

Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Kaikaku vs kaizen
  • Elements of kaikaku
  • Process characteristics
  • See also
  • References

Kaikaku (改革), is the Japanese term for "radical change". In business, kaikaku is concerned with making fundamental and radical changes to a production system, unlike kaizen which is focused on incremental changes.

== Kaikaku vs kaizen == Kaikaku and kaizen are concepts in Japanese production philosophy that relate to each other. Both have origins in the Toyota Production System and can be applied to activities other than production.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kaikaku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 7 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0