Ramakanta Routaray

1) Japanese focus on continuous improvement rather than a sudden or quick improvemet which doesn't stand valid for a long time. Especially continuous improvement build long term success. 2) Continous improvement on an individual or organization or group requires understanding the root cause in transparent manner and then working towards that. 3) Transparency in communication, in accepting any fact is the key to approach any problem and finding a best possible solutions to that problem. 4) Especially in manufacturing organization or assembly or reaseach organization, it is very much essential to keep informed all stakeholders about the problem. Sharing transparently with others about the problem always give benefit of finding an optimum solutions. 5) This transparency communication will happen when an individual accept his or her own mistake in understanding or in analysing or in communicating or in supplying inputs to next customer. 6) This forms a close look of information sharing and collectively approaching towards a problem and finding a solution. 7) Accepting one's own mistake will open up transparency and will get support from the extended hand. In Japanese, 8) Hansei means acknowledge one's own mistake and promising for improvement. 9) Once acceptance of own mistake is done, next step is make a promise for improvement gradually step by step. Hence hansei is the central idea. 10) It enhances learning ability It gives chance to improve from one to next gradually 11) Hansei is related with kaizen, which specially focus on continuous improvement. 12) To achieve continuous success, hansei is a key to that, a stepping stone to that. 13) As it emphasizes on accepting one's own mistake and improve gradually. Hansei is an essential key element for a long term success

Constraints defines restrictions or impossible to do that ex design or features. But bottleneck is you are at the extreme case of your limits