Tag: Toyota
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1
Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...
Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma” Please
My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System).
I've just really never done much with Six Sigma....
Guest Post: Kaizen and Passion
Mark's note: Today's guest post is from a friend of mine from The Netherlands. I had a chance to visit Marc and his hospital...
Guest Post: 11 Common Misconceptions About Lean
Mark's note: Here's another great vacation guest post by Jeff Hajek:
By Jeff Hajek
Despite having been fairly main stream for going on three decades now,...
Guest Post: Reports of Kaizen’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Mark's note: Today's vacation post is from my good friend Dan Markovitz, who normally blogs here. Listen to my podcasts with him here...
The Two Root Causes of Everything?
One thing I have enjoyed in the past few years is meeting and working with more people with direct experience working at Toyota (including...
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality & Social Responsibility (& Lean)
In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...
Google Nexus Q – Made in the USA
I'm not sure Google has much of a market for a $299 media player (with the AppleTV and Roku players being under $100), but...
Partial Transcript of Podcast #142 – @EricRies on Taiichi Ohno &...
Here is a transcript of last week's podcast with Eric Ries talking about the impact that Toyota legend Taiichi Ohno had on his work...
Today Would Have Been Taiichi Ohno’s 100th Birthday
Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter -- today would have been the...
A Lean Guy Watches Moneyball
When it first came out, I was a big fan of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland...
Yes, We Need Staff Ideas – But, How to Manage Those...
It's always great to see stories in the major media outlets about engaging front-line staff in improvement ideas. Recently, we had a piece in...