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A Lean-Kaizen Implementation: A Case Study in the Food Retail Industry
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Author(s): Pedro Silva (CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), Alexandra Braga (CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), Sara Mota (CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), Miguel Soares (CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)and Marisa R. Ferreira (CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 14
Source title:
Reviving Businesses With New Organizational Change Management Strategies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nuno Geada (College of Business Administration, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal)and Pedro Anunciação (College of Business Administration, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7452-2.ch010
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Abstract
Sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges facing our generation and the next, and achieving this goal will force society to continuously challenge and overcome itself. In order to attain the required sustainable objectives, many companies are investing in new methodologies, such as the Kaizen-Lean methodology. This chapter focuses on a case study in the food retail industry, a strategic and one of the largest and oldest industries in the world able to thrive even in the face of substantial adversity. The authors systematized the case study in three different stages via an action-research intervention. In a first stage, they identified the most sensitive areas, which enabled them to detect and target the intervention. In a second stage, they implemented and monitored several actions supported by the Kaizen/Lean methodologies. In a third stage, a survey was applied to workers whose work areas had changed in order to analyze and assess the impact of the implemented measures.
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