Tag: Japan

The Path to Patient Safety in Japan (or Elsewhere): Reporting Problems,...

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tl;dr summary: The blog post discusses the importance of reporting and solving problems for patient safety in Japan. It highlights stories from two hospitals...

From Japan: “We were not always a Kaizen company” — Surprising?

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Here is something brief that I posted on LinkedIn while I was in Japan recently, but I also wanted to share it here, elaborating...

Making People and Making Things – in Japan or Mr. Rogers’...

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Monday was the first day of my fifth Lean study trip to Japan. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to once again visit a Toyota...

Inside Toyota’s Takaoka #2 Line – Flexibility and Kaizen

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This is an interesting article: Inside Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line In The World I had a chance to visit the 'Takaoka #1"...

Podcast #330 – Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers

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Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...

Toyota as a “People Development Company”

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When I had the chance to go back to Japan last October with Honsha, there was a big focus on what the former Toyota...

My Embarrassing Sushi Mistake in Japan; Standardized Work, Leadership, and Mental...

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I had a great time and learned so much as a guest of Honsha and their Executive Development Mission trip to Japan in October....

Podcast #326 – Katie Anderson on Lean Collaboration Within Healthcare and...

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Joining me for the fourth time, here for Episode #326 of the podcast, is my friend and colleague Katie Anderson, a leadership coach, Lean consultant, speaker and writer from the San Francisco area. Hear our previous podcasts about visiting and living in Japan. Today, we're talking about a number of topics related to learning and collaboration: Her upcoming book with Isao Yoshino, the local San Francisco Bay area AME consortium that she is leading, her next trip to Japan (which you can join), and more. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did.

Why Would You Go Back To Japan? Haven’t You Been There,...

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When I got back from Japan a few weeks back, somebody at a hospital client of mine asked me: "Why go back to Japan again? Haven't you been there, done that?" Why go back to Japan? Why not go back? I learn something new and have great experiences each time and my recent opportunity to tag along with Honsha was no exception.

Off to Japan for a Week…

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Today, I'm off to Japan for a week, so I might be away from the blog. I do have a podcast scheduled for release on Tuesday.

More on Teaching TQM, TPS, Lean, and Kaizen to Doctors in...

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In the third and final part of this series, I share more about how Toyota teaches about TPS and TQM... and how they are sharing that approach with doctors and hospitals.

How Toyota Teaches a Japanese Hospital’s Doctors About TQM

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Last week, I wrote about the influence of Total Quality Management (TQM) on Toyota -- in the past and the present, in Japan and beyond. Today, to follow up on that, I'm going to share some excerpts from some material that was shared by a Toyota leader who presented at a hospital I visited earlier this year as part of the Kaizen Institute-organized Japan trip.