Tag: Toyota

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...