Tag: Toyota

Toyota Leadership Right From Akio Toyoda

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Afternoon post planned for today -- initial reflections on my reader survey. Thanks to those of you who gave your feedback. Come back or...

How Jim Baran Got Started with Lean

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Mark's note: Jim's post originally started as a comment in response to my post "Where Did I Start with Lean?" but it exceeded the...

UPDATED: Toyota to Liquidate Stake in NUMMI. Shut Down?

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Report: Toyota to liquidate its stake in Fremont's NUMMI plant - San Jose Mercury NewsToyota has not confirmed, but reports say NUMMI will be...

John Shook on A3 Reports in Sloan Management Review

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The Magazine » Toyota's Secret: The A3 Report « MIT Sloan Management Review John Shook had an article published in the latest SMR, based on...

Lean Guy Drove a Prius For Two Years And…

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

Breaking: GM Dumps NUMMI Partnership with Toyota

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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 Leaders Get a Lecture From a Toyoda

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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...

LIFE Magazine August 1980 – Auto Manufacturing

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

NPR Does a Great Job of Covering Toyota

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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...

LeanBlog Podcast #67 – Matt May, “In Pursuit of Elegance”

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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...

NY Times Says Toyota To Get Leaner, Um, More Lean? Super...

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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...

Jim Womack on BBC World Business News

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