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Blog Statistics

Launch date: November 18, 2003 Statistics updated: January 10, 2008 Total number of articles: 645 Readership per day: 2,000. Thank you. Target: 3,000 per day in 2008. more>>

By Jon Miller - July 1, 2007 12:12 PM

About this Blog

Introduction to Gemba Panta Rei Gemba Panta Rei is the corporate blog of Gemba Research, a kaizen consulting firm. In this blog we will share our thoughts on Lean manufacturing, kaizen, Lean healthcare, Lean governemnt, Lean transaction and better ways to make things better. The views and opinions on this more>>

By Jon Miller - May 16, 2007 2:33 PM

Glitch Fixed

Kaizen we know how to do. Getting books printed and launching new websites smoothly, on the other hand, are things we are still learning how to do. Apologies for the unplanned downtime yesterday. more>>

By Jon Miller - May 15, 2007 4:20 PM

Thank You

Sometime in the last week the number of pieces about Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Way in this blog exceeded 500. If even a small number of those pieces have helped others find better ways to teach and do kaizen, the effort will have been worthwhile. The ideas keep flowing more>>

By Jon Miller - April 15, 2007 12:13 PM

Changes Afoot At Gemba Panta Rei

If you are reading this on or about the publishing date noted above, and you have visited us before you will notice some changes to the design of these pages. It looks something like this at the moment, but changes are afoot. Most of the changes are graphical in nature more>>

By Jon Miller - December 20, 2006 11:44 AM

October: A Month of Lean-free Blogging

For the next 31 days there will be no mention of the word "Lean" in the posts on this blog. There will still be discussion on the subject, but no mention of the word itself. It will be an experiment with other ways of expressing or explaining what is commonly more>>

By Jon Miller - September 30, 2006 9:27 AM

Lean Manufacturing Blog Reader Survey Results 7-06

Eight weeks ago I asked “Who are you?” with the goal of learning more about who you, the readers, are. The aim was to kaizen this blog to make it more helpful in promoting kaizen – the never ending effort to make things better. Now that the results are in, more>>

By Jon Miller - July 2, 2006 9:27 PM

I am a Blogger and Kaizen Consultant. Who are You?

I am a blogger, kaizen consultant and small business owner. I speak Japanese and English and a couple of other languages not as well. I write these articles because I believe that if more people learn about kaizen good things will happen. Who are you? Why do you visit this more>>

By Jon Miller - April 30, 2006 7:50 AM

This Blog Has Been Kaizened to Accept Your Comments!

We have upgraded our blogging platform! You are now invited to join the discussion about kaizen, Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement on our blog. You can post your comments in the field directly below each article. We look forward to hearing from you! We will moderate the comments to make more>>

By Jon Miller - December 12, 2005 4:27 PM