Tag: Toyota

Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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)

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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

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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 &...

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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

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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

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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...

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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...
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