Tag: Toyota
Toyota Leadership Right From Akio Toyoda
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
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?
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
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…
... 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
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
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
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
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”
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...
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
BBC World Service - Business - 5/05/2009 - Car Crash
The BBC aired a revisiting of a story from 2007, I found this thanks to...