Tag: Toyota

Lean Cannot be Measured by Inventory Alone

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I know many of you won't have access to this article from the latest Industrial Engineer magazine (from the Institute of Industrial Engineers) but...

Book Review: How Toyota Became #1

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Review By Mike Gardner, TPM Blog Name of the Book: How Toyota Became #1 Author: David Magee Publication Date: 2007 Book description: David Magee interviewed current and former Toyota...

Maybe a little hansei would be in order.

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by Dan MarkovitzWithout realizing it, James B. Stewart, the SmartMoney columnist for the Wall Street Journal, touched on the value and power of hansei...

Automotive Overproduction Comparison

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How GM Handles a Hit: Build Fewer - WSJ.comWelcome to new readers from the MoneyCentral MSN blog. To explore more about "Lean," visit the...

Toyota marks 50 years in U.S.

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This month marks a pretty significant milestone, 50 years since Toyota first started selling cars in the U.S. A collection of articles:Toyota marks 50...

How Toyota Became #1, and Will Again

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I've mentioned this book before, coming out Nov 1, it's called How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company.I had...

How Curiosity Empowers Toyota

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Business Week ArticleHere is a new article from Business Week, which also focuses on the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from...

Copying Toyota’s Past Practices or Toyota’s Thinking?

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With our Lean efforts, it's always good to ask, are we:Copying Toyota's past methods,Copying Toyota's current methods ORCopying Toyota's thought process and conceptsIf you're...

The Patriots are like Toyota?

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Unbeaten Patriots see room for improvement - NFL - Yahoo! SportsThe above headline blew me away this morning. The Patriots have basically been...

Free Peeks into Taiichi Ohno’s Book

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I think I've mentioned this resource before, the free content that is online in Google Books. Even though I own Taiichi Ohno's book...

Upcoming Book: How Toyota Became #1

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I was just contacted this morning by David Magee, the author of the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's...

LeanBlog Podcast #31 — David Meier on ‘Toyota Talent,’ Standardization, and...

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Listen: LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker. In this...
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