The Toyota Way is a philosophy that includes Kaizen, Lean, and like 12 other principles. http://icos.groups.si.umich.edu/Liker04.pdf. Most people latch on to one or two because the whole thing is too big to grasp at one sitting. It takes a long time (a century, for Toyota) to develop a company into it.
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Kaizen is a small part of the Lean philosophy that originated in Toyota. I dont understandbwhy the article focuses on kaizen technique only.
The Toyota Way is a philosophy that includes Kaizen, Lean, and like 12 other principles. http://icos.groups.si.umich.edu/Liker04.pdf. Most people latch on to one or two because the whole thing is too big to grasp at one sitting. It takes a long time (a century, for Toyota) to develop a company into it.
I'd say that kaizen is a lean technique for improving a process or flow as described in "Lean thinking".