Reading 4.2: Imai

According to Masaaki Imai (‘Kaizen’, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), what is the nature of change?
1. Revolutionary, functional change
2. Evolutionary, functional change
3. Evolutionary, strategic change
4. Revolutionary, strategic change.
According to Imai (‘Kaizen’, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), what problem, of Western companies, is addressed through the use of Kaizen?
1. An unhealthy obsession with one-shot innovations
2. A lack of understanding of the total innovation process by the firm’s strategic apex
3. Doing too little, too late
4. A focus of extracting wealth from the firm, rather than on wealth generation.
The Deming Wheel, or PDCA cycle, of W.E. Deeming (‘Kaizen’ by Imai, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), consists of which four steps?
1. Process, Develop, Change, Acceptance
2. Plan, Do, Check, Action
3. Plan, Do, Change, Design
4. Process Development Can Advance.
According to Imai (‘Kaizen’, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), what type of economy is best suited to using Kaizen, rather than innovation?
1. Medium-growth
2. Slow-growth
3. Any type
4. High-growth.
According to Imai (‘Kaizen’, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), what type of economy is best suited to using innovation, rather than Kaizen?
1. High-growth
2. Medium-growth
3. Slow-growth
4. Any type.
According to Imai (‘Kaizen’, 1986, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010, Reading 4.2), who is responsible for finding improvements when using Kaizen?
1. Everyone
2. Everyone, but mainly those at the bottom of the organization
3. Mid and senior level managers
4. Everyone, but mainly those at the top of the organization.