Business
- kanban
- 看板, literally a "signal" or "sign" signals a cycle of replenishment for production and materials and maintains an orderly and efficient flow of materials throughout the entire manufacturing process. Part of Six Sigma
- karoshi
- (Japanese: 過労死 death by overwork / stress death)
- keiretsu
- 系列, a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings
- OffJT
- オフジェーティー ofujētī, "off the job training", means "training outside the workplace"
- tycoon
- (from 大君 "taikun"), "great prince" or "high commander", later applied to wealthy business leaders
- zaibatsu
- 財閥, a "money clique" or conglomerate
Read more about this topic: List Of English Words Of Japanese Origin
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)