Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: A, University of Massachusetts Boston, language: English, abstract: Continuous improvement refers to the process in which an organization makes effort to improve its services, processes and products. For the process of continuous improvement to become successful, it is necessary for an organization to have good feedback mechanisms where customers' preferences are evaluated according to the goals that a company has. Organizations use Kaizen principle to ensure success in their operations. These principles introduce continuous improvement in the culture of a company, quality of products and services, technology, safety, productivity and leadership. Using Kaizen system, employees from every level of management are given a chance of suggesting the techniques that an organization can adopt in order to improve its entire operations. Continuous improvements benefit an organization in several ways. One of the benefits of this strategy is that it helps in reducing all the wastes that may be in organization's processes. It also improves the quality of organization's products increasing the level of consumers' satisfaction. Customers' satisfaction focuses on the extent at which consumers are happy concerning services and products that are offered by a particular business. The level of consumer satisfaction is used to assess the efficiency of employees in an organization. ...