This article from a consultant describes a Kaizen
process adapted for small- to medium-sized companies:
Often smaller plants cannot dedicate even one team of
eight employees for a full week of Kaizen, even though
Kaizen principles are as effective in small companies as
they are in large ones. To make Kaizen work for our
client companies, I had to continuously improve my own
process. After discussions with several companies, I
condensed the process to two days of team meeting time
(sometimes separated by several weeks of implementation
time).