Tag: Toyota

April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean!

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Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...

A Lean Urban Legend/Myth Busted about Toyoda and Toyota Names?

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Last month, in the midst of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's appearance in front of Congress, there was a little sidebar in the USA Today...

Dr. Deming – “More Relevant Than Ever”

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Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...

NPR on the “End of the Line” at NUMMI and My...

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Here's some Saturday morning listening... a story from yesterday's "All Things Considered" on the "End of the Line" at the NUMMI plant (the GM...

LeanBlog Podcast #85 – David Meier on Toyota’s Quality Challenges, a...

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Episode #85 is a conversation with David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader and the co-author of the books The Toyota Way Fieldbook and...

Video Interview with LEI’s Jim Womack

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Jim Womack visited  Lantech, a manufacturer of stretch wrappers and other packaging equipment. While there and visiting the "gemba," Jim was interviewed about Lean,...

Detroidenfreude

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Random thought related to those from the Big 3 Detroit 3  who are happy to see Toyota suffer, I think I'm coining a term...

Akio Toyoda’s Testimony to Congress

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I only watched a few minutes of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's live testimony (thanks to online cable news streaming), but the first things I...

Familiar Voices and New Voices on Lean

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You heard enough from me yesterday... today I want to share some other voices with you and their thoughts on Lean. First, familiar voices...

L.A.M.E. as Heard on NPR?

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Oh no, it seems like a L.A.M.E. ("Lean As Misguidedly Executed") story on NPR's All Things Considered program. No wonder some people hate the...

Re-visiting Chapter 2 of Out of the Crisis (Part 1)

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Continuing my series on re-reading Dr. W. Edwards Deming's book Out of the Crisis, I'm posting a series of tweets from the Chapter along...

Great Newsweek Cover Story on Why Layoffs Are Harmful

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I had long given up on Newsweek as a source of news (hey, at least it's published weekly unlike IndustryWeek). But this cover caught...
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