KAIZEN AND THE SOUND TRANSIT IT INVESTMENT PLAYBOOK

According to Haffie, the time to complete IT procurements had become unacceptably long. Kaizen is as much a philosophy as a tool: a habit of continuous improvement that empowers (and expects) each employee to find ways to improve processes, key among them the elimination of muda (waste). According t...

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Published in:Government Procurement 2018-01, Vol.25 (6), p.8
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