Tag: Liker

Ten Common Misconceptions About Toyota | Quality Digest I found this interesting column from Quality Digest, by Stewart Anderson, a guy who says he has...

University of Michigan looks to lean principles for system-wide improvements - MLive.comHere is some positive news coming out of my home state of Michigan......

Lean Leap to Health Care #7 (click for Part #6) by Scott McDuffee "Where is the main entrance? Why do I follow the signs to HERE?...

Dear Lean Blog Readers:I try hard to not bombard you with commercial messages, but I do want to take a minute to recognize three...

Here's another Lean Blog reader question from Joe, who writes:Last year I was part of an ERP implementation team at our company, and while...

Award Recipients - The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence - shingoprize.org The full list of winners has been released. Congratulations to all! It's personally quite...

Toyota's plunge into big pickups veers into a Texas-size ravine - USATODAY.com I've already written about this before, but there was a new article in...

I've been making my way through the book Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way at a regrettably slow pace. There's such...

Fixing East-West clash challengingProf. Jeffrey Liker keynoted a Lean event in Oklahoma and is quoted as saying:Maybe the cowboy and the samurai best illustrate...

CURRENTS / 'Toyota way' inspires lean practices From a Japanese newspaper, an article about the impact the Toyota Production System is having on organizations around...

Listen: Here is LeanBlog Podcast #41 with Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liker is most...

Here is LeanBlog Podcast #39, once again featuring Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liker...