Tag: Ohno

When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #460 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Philip Holt. He is...

The Wall Street Journal has an epic track record when it comes to always getting it wrong when they write about Lean or the...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Healthcare -- Creating Value...

Starting With the Grand-Daddies of Quality A few years back I developed a blog series titled, "The Grand-Daddies of Quality"-- my goal was to delve...

In Episode 13 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh reconnect in their first joint episode this year, after a couple weeks of...

I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was already on there...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark shares insights from a video featuring Nampachi Hayashi, a senior advisor at Toyota, discussing common misunderstandings about the Toyota...

Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse backgrounds in manufacturing, healthcare, IT, government, and other industries or professions together to learn from each other in a "PowerPoint-free zone." In this post, I'll share some photos and reflections on our tour of the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio (TMMTX). The visitor center has been completely revamped from my last visit, just as the one visitor center I saw in Japan back in March had been redone.

In this post, I talk about my dental practices "need" to get Lean, my need to floss, and some of the tactics that help others change. You being right doesn't mean mean others will accept your Lean practices or your scolding about flossing nightly.

Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post: "Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal" I'm a big fan of Taiichi Ohno's advice to "start from need." I cringe when I hear people say that we should standardize the way work is done "because Lean says so." There's no substitute for judgment in the grey areas related to standardized work. What should we standardize? For what purpose? How standardized should the work be? Baseball is struggling with questions like this... how standardized should the balls be... and for what purpose?

It's Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan as I write this. I'm still jet-lagged and up early, so here's a blog post after all... Sunday, I had the chance to visit the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya. There's so much that I can blog about...I'll write more posts about my museum visit in the future. In this post though, I share a little bit about some of the books that they sell - in English and Japanese...