Tag: Toyota

People often ask "So where did the term 'lean' come from?" It didn't come from Toyota. And the term isn't an acronym (so no...

Episode #97 is a discussion with Bob Sutton, a Stanford University Professor of Management Science and Engineering and the best-selling author of The No...

This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at least...

Mark's note: Today is the first of a series of guest posts that will appear over the next two weeks from a variety of...

Listen: Episode #91 is a very special one-on-one conversation that I had with Dr. Stephen Covey, recorded at the Shingo Prize Conference in Salt Lake...

Surprising news today from California... from the WSJ. Toyota and Tesla are partnering up! Tesla Motors Inc. said it is partnering with Toyota Motors Inc....

Podcast #90 features Tim Turner, a team leader at Toyota's factory in Georgetown Kentucky (aka TMMK or Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky). He is the...

For those of you who have had difficulty accessing LeanBlog.org for the past two weeks or so, I apologize. It's been frustrating to me...

I was recently in Toronto and I heard a story on an AM news station that really caught my ear. I have searched on...

Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...

Last month, in the midst of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's appearance in front of Congress, there was a little sidebar in the USA Today...

Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...