Tag: Toyota

... I wasn't impressed in the least. In my previous role as a consultant, I was given a company vehicle to use, even though...

After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota In the news this afternoon: PRESS RELEASE: 2009-06-29 GM Media Statement Regarding GM's Ownership Stake in NUMMI Attributable to Troy...

Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...

I ended up having the chance to flip through a LIFE magazine from August 1980 and, given that was also a major recessionary period,...

Following The Toyota Way, For Better Or Worse : NPR (listen or read) I'll hand it to NPR, they generally do a much better job...

This podcast is an interview with Matt May, author of the Shingo Prize-winning book The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation. Available May 19...

Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt - NYTimes.comThe words don't appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many...

BBC World Service - Business - 5/05/2009 - Car Crash The BBC aired a revisiting of a story from 2007, I found this thanks to...

ANALYSIS - Six Sigma mystique takes beating in downturn | Motoring | Reuters Thanks to a former Toyota employee (and friend of mine) for sending...

Toyota Poised to Make Shift in North America - WSJ.com Interesting WSJ comment from this recent piece about planned management changes in North America. Jim Lentz,...

The other 'Big 3': Japanese car giants caught in sales skid, too - USATODAY.comIt was Kaizen Week in the paper, apparently, as the word...

Ford CEO Mulally shares Toyota's vision -- Article from USATODAY.com Why does the USA TODAY tend to do a better job with Lean articles than...