Díaz de Mera Sánchez, Mª del PradoArenas Reina, José ManuelGonzalez Gaya, Cristina2024-05-202024-05-202012-02-03de Mera Sánchez, P.D., Gaya, C.G., Reina, J.M.A., 2012. The Holistic Approach of the Industrial Strategies of Continuous Improvement. KEM. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.502.1331662-9795https://hdl.handle.net/10115/32963Research in the late 80´s on technological companies that develop products of high value innovation, with sufficient speed and flexibility to adapt quickly to changing market conditions, gave rise to the new set of methodologies known as Agile Management Approach. In the current changing economic scenario, we considered very interesting to study the similarities of these Agile Methodologies with other practices whose effectiveness has been amply demonstrated in both the West and Japan. Strategies such as kaizen, Lean, World Class Manufacturing, Concurrent Engineering, etc, would be analyzed to check the values they have in common with the Agile Approach.engAgile ApproachContinuous ImprovementConcurrent EngineeringLean Strategyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.502.133info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess