Tag: Japan

Interview With the First American Woman to Work for Honda in...

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I don't share every episode of "My Favorite Mistake" here (but I do hope you'll subscribe and listen). As a reader of this blog,...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 12, 2021

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Healthcare - Creating Value...

Katie Anderson & Isao Yoshino’s “Favorite Mistakes” and Toyota’s Culture

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I've stopped sharing every single episode of the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast here on the blog, but I will share episodes that feature folks...

Episode #22 of “Lean Whiskey”: Catching Up with Honsha Friends Over...

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For Episode 22, Mark Graban is joined by Darril Wilburn and Sammy Obara, two former Toyota employees who are colleagues at the firm Honsha....

Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of First Half 2020

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Summer is approaching which means it's time to review the 10 most popular mixtape links of 2020...

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....