Tag: Toyota
In Memoriam: Ritsuo Shingo, Former Toyota Executive and Lean Teacher
I am saddened to hear of the death of Ritsuo Shingo (1947-2023), as announced by the Shingo Institute. He was the son of Shigeo...
Interview with Mit Vyas: Insights on Learning from Toyota, Entrepreneurial Success,...
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Joining us for Episode #472 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Mit Vyas, managing director...
What A Unicorn Knows: Interview With Authors Matt May & Pablo...
Joining us for Episode #469 of the Lean Blog Interview Podcast are Matt May and Pablo Dominguez, the authors of the new book What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs...
Alternative History: Toyota’s CEO Accelerates Lean Healthcare Improvement in the 2000s
Following up on my recent collaboration with ChatGPT ("Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto Industry"), I also asked the...
Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto...
Updated May 2024: I worked with ChatGPT 4 to create a longer, hopefully better, version of the alternate history story here.
ChatGPT is still all...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 27th, 2023
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
Lean Whiskey #37: Starbucks’ Gemba, Toyota’s Tour, Product Innovation & Lean...
"I'll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte... to-go."
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The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...
What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in...
There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial and, of...
Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic
A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory"
Last year, I wrote a post that criticized those, including the Wall St Journal, who...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 18, 2022
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Get these directly...
At Toyota: Mistakes are OK, as Long as We Learn; Culture...
The book that I'm writing on learning from mistakes is not an academic research-driven project. My "field research" mainly consists of the 200 podcast...