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Kaizen continuous improvement using small incremental changes. Kaikaku is more radical then Kaizen. We can say that large radical incremental changes Kakushin is about major shift, it about innovation. My personal analogy for these 3 Lean Methodologies: kaizen is like Staircase, kaikaku is like escalator (Has Incremental Steps like staircase but automated like lift) and kakushin is like lift. Other example, Currently we are using software for Data Analysis (MS Excel 2010) and daily we are putting efforts that how we can do data analysis in better way using same software, this is kaizen.A new Vesion of same software (MS Excel 2013) with better Data Analysis Capabilities is example of kaikaku.Suppose through innovation we were able to formed totally new software having excellent capabilities then previous software like MYSQL. Important thing here is to note that- no approarch is better than other , its totally depend upon many factors and available resources.You might thing that MYSQL is way better than MS Excel but you have to take care about training, change management efforts and there is possiblity that you organization dont like advanced features or capabilities for data analysis.