The Legend of the Great Horse » kaizen http://thegreathorse.com/blog a trilogy Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Kaizen http://thegreathorse.com/blog/2010/01/the-kaizen-of-zen/ http://thegreathorse.com/blog/2010/01/the-kaizen-of-zen/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:34:49 +0000 admin http://www.thegreathorse.com/blog/?p=1517 horse-in-japaneseI’ve recently heard about something that has definite appeal to anyone else being swept downstream in the Web 2.0 digital river of blogs, tweets, and other social media technologies.

The word “kaizen” basically means “improvement” in Japanese, but it has come to mean a method of continuous incremental improvements in process or design. Kaizen in this sense developed in post-WWII Japan and is primarily associated with business practices, but I feel has something to offer the technically overwhelmed.

I don’t know that kaizen is truly zen–though, who can say it is not, grasshopper?–but it sounds like a great way to approach the online dragon.

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