St. Paul Pioneer Press | 08/26/2005 | Imation pins hopes on growth:
It's no surprise that lean author Bruce Henderson (Lean Transformation) would be using lean as a turnaround strategy at Imation.
“Much of Imation's optimism stems from a more stable market for optical disks.Henderson also has begun to deploy Toyota's famed ‘lean production' methods that he learned working for TRW on a joint venture making seat belts with Tokai Rika Co. Ltd. of Japan.”


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