Tag: Japan Tour

One question I was asked to ask during my Japan trip was to see if "Quality Circles" are still active in Japanese companies. I...

We just finished our second day of our Kaizen Institute Japan Lean Tour and it's been great so far. Follow us via the hashtag...

Tomorrow, I'm leaving for Japan and I'll be with Kaizen Institute for our second Lean healthcare study tour (see a PDF about the trip). We have...

I've been going back through my notes and pictures from my first trip to Japan in November... my goal is to blog about something or...

Reflecting more on my recent Japan tour (see previous posts) one word came up in my notes: artifacts. One dictionary definition of that term is...

I'm on my way home from Japan as this post gets published. I will probably take the week off from blogging for the Thanksgiving...

Yesterday, our tour group had a chance to visit an outstanding factory. They manufacture gas meters and they do everything from casting aluminum, creating...

Yesterday, our Lean Healthcare tour of Japan (with Kaizen Institute) took us to our second hospital, this time in Tokyo. The CEO, Shuhei Iida,...

Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...

Yesterday, I was able to visit Toyota City as part of the Kaizen Institute tour I am a part of. Now, we weren't able...

I know many of you aren't into the whole Twitter thing, but I'm using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches...

While I'm in Japan this week (read about the trip), I'm going to keep my blogging light - my aim is to share one...