Tag: Toyota
A Lean Urban Legend/Myth Busted about Toyoda and Toyota Names?
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”
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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?
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)
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
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...
The Role of Purpose and Your Role
What is your role at work? Your purpose? Those questions might make you really stop and think.
I sat in yesterday on a class, taught...