Robust Kaizen Systems
Shrinivas Gondhalekar
(Deputy General Manager (HRD and Productivity
Services) with Godrej Soaps Limited and Visiting Faculty on Japanese
Management with Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in India)
Vandana Karamchandani
(with A.F. Ferguson Consultants, Bombay.)
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Abstract
A robust kaizen system, suitable for initiating TQM, was developed and implemented in a large company in India, named Godrej, for over two years. Statistical analysis of accumulated data was done to identify predictor variables and determine their optimal levels. While doing this, a unique method was evolved. It marries analytical hierarchy processes with Taguchi methods to overcome limited availability of predictor variable combinations. The method has general applicability in social sciences.
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Citation
Gondhalekar, S. and Karamchandani, V. (1994), "Robust Kaizen Systems", The TQM Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/09544789410057818
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited