My guest for episode three of the Lean Blog Podcast is Dr. Jeffrey Liker, professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and author of The Toyota Way. Liker has spent decades studying how Toyota actually works, not just the tools on the surface but the management practices and culture underneath them. In this conversation, recorded in August 2006, we talk about the gap between companies that talk lean and companies that … Continue reading Jeffrey Liker on the Toyota Way and Why Lean Enterprise Takes Years, Not Weeks