Welcome to Kaizen Excellence Center
A project entitled “The Study on Quality and Productivity Improvement (Kaizen) in the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in 2005” Three consecutive Kaizen projects, supported by JICA, have been implemented in Ethiopia since October 2009.The first pilot project was undertaken to confirm the transferability of Kaizen and study how use of the concept could be expanded after the JICA project was completed. Using selection criteria 30 companies were selected from manufacturing sector and the impact of Kaizen activity on 65% of the companies constitutes satisfactory achievement, thereby confirming the success of the project. Then Ethiopia Kaizen Institute was established by the proclamation of the Council of Ministers 256/2011 (FDRE 2011).
Mission, Vision and Policy Goal of EKI
Ensuring the competitiveness capability of manufacturing and service industries by implementing problem and research based Kaizen training and consultancy.
Becoming the preferred center of capacity building for quality, productivity and business capability in Africa by 2030.
The policy goal of EKI is to contribute in realizing national prosperity plan through sustainable development and competitiveness enhancement of manufacturing and service industries by application of Kaizen -continual improvement of quality, productivity and working culture.
Our Core Values
Ethiopian Kaizen Institute is committed to providing our services to the right time to the right organizations with right quality of services !!
Explore Recent Work
Based on EKI’s new approach Ethio-Engineering Group (EEG, former METEC) is the first customer to introduce ‘Problem-Led Kaizen Implementation’ project. The project commenced in July 2020 and will hold for a year. Since EEG has passed through organizational change, Kaizen will foster the effort to enhance the company’s competitiveness and sustainability
Our Achievements
The achievements of Ethiopian Kaizen can be viewed as by the three JICA-supported projects and EKI’s own efforts. In figure 1 there cannot be basis for comparison whether the score of total companies reaches is high or not. However, the figure shows the total number of companies get hold of is more than four hundred, classified under 13 sub sectors and also the numbers for some sectors such as tourism are grown-up starting from 2008E.C it means the time after reformation the organizational structure.
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የካይዘን ልህቀት ማዕከል የካይዘን ፍልስፍናን ተግብረው በምዘና የላቀ ውጤት ለሚያስመዘግቡ ተቋማት፣ ቡድኖችን እና ግለሰቦች “የኢትዮጵያ ካይዘን ሽልማት” በሚል በየአመቱ የዕውቅና እና ሽልማት ሰነ-ስረዓት ያከናውናል፡፡ ስለሆነም ፍልስፍናውን ተግብራቹ ውጤት ማስመዝገብ የቻላችሁ ተቋማት፣ ቡድኖች እና ግለሰቦች መመዝገብ [...]
EKI has put Kaizen Management Information system (KMIS) in effect.
Ethiopia Kaizen Institute has put Kaizen Management Information system (KMIS) in effect. Kaizen Management Information System has been design and developed internally by the Institute Information Technology directorate’s IT consultants together with its [...]
Background of EKI
Ethiopia’s years Journey of Kaizen “Kaizen” landed in Ethiopia. The term “Kaizen” became common to Ethiopian people, and Kaizen philosophy and technology have been implementing in many places of various sectors, private enterprises, [...]
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Trusted Partners
Bridging the Gap in Expertise and Knowledge we believe partnership and cooperation play gigantic role .