Tag: Podcast – Toyota

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #508 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Mike Hoseus, Executive Director...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #455 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ken Pilone. He is...

Scroll down for info, videos about Lucid Motors, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #410 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is...

Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #402 is Jay Hodge, the founder and CEO of Jay Hodge &...

My guest for Episode #400 is Jeffrey Liker, the retired University of Michigan professor who has recently released the second updated and revised version...

Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #399 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is Lesa Nichols, a former...

Joining me for Episode #397 is Hide Oba. His father was the late Hajime Oba, famous for his work at Toyota and the TSSC,...

Joining me again for Episode #386 is Steve Spear, who reached out to share recollections of one of his most influential teachers and mentors,...

Joining me for Episode #334, all the way from Australia, is Barry McCarthy. Barry spent more than 15 years in leadership roles with Toyota...

Joining me today for Episode #332 is Jason Burt, owner of EHIP Consulting. Jason is a Lean consultant and business coach with an extensive...

My guest for Episode 311 is Jess Orr, a continuous improvement practitioner at WestRock, a large paper and packaging company, where she helps plants foster a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement. \Her experience includes working directly for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky. She is particularly passionate about sharing best practices across industries, which motivated her to found Yokoten Learning. In today's episode, we talk about her path from Six Sigma Black Belt to a Lean-thinking engineer at Toyota. How did she progress from solving problems herself to developing others? We'll talk about a blog post that she wrote for this blog earlier this year, Lean and ROI, leadership and culture, and much more. What is it like working outside of Toyota again? I hope you enjoy the discussion.

Back on the podcast for the fifth time is my friend David Meier, a Lean / TPS consultant who is a former Toyota leader at their plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. He's gotten into what's, perhaps, the most Kentucky of industries... distilling bourbon (and more). I'll have two more podcast episodes where David and I talk about bourbon, whiskey, and continuous improvement for almost 90 minutes total there. Those episodes are coming soon. Today is a shorter episode, where we catch up and hear more about what David has been doing since his last podcast appearance in 2010 when we talked about the challenges Toyota was facing then. In this episode, David drops a lot of knowledge and wisdom in a very short time -- thoughts on problem solving and how Lean thinking isn't easy for anybody, even if you're Japanese.