Tag: Taiichi Ohno
Remembering Norm Bodek, 20 Years After Episode #1
In July 2006, I pressed record on a conversation with Norm Bodek. The audio quality was poor. I had no idea what I was...
Even Ohno’s Classic “5 Whys” Example Deserves Another Why
Here's the most famous example of root cause analysis in the Lean world, from Taiichi Ohno's book on the Toyota Production System. You've seen...
Lessons from Toyota Culture: Embracing Problems, Kaizen, and Psychological Safety
tl;dr: Toyota's culture treats problems as opportunities for learning--not failures to hide. Lessons from Toyota leaders show how kaizen, psychological safety, and trust enable...
The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...
Philip Holt on Leading and Living Lean, With Simplicity
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My guest for Episode #460 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Philip Holt.
He is...
When the WSJ Gets Lean Right: Larry Culp, GE, and Real...
tl;dr: The WSJ usually oversimplifies Lean, but this GE/Larry Culp article offers a surprisingly accurate look at flow, kaizen, and the culture behind real...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Jan 29, 2021
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...
Anti-Racism: A River WE Must Cross
Starting With the Grand-Daddies of Quality
A few years back I developed a blog series titled, "The Grand-Daddies of Quality"-- my goal was to delve...
Episode #13 of “Lean Whiskey”: Don’t Drink Pacific Northwest Whiskeys While...
In Episode 13 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh reconnect in their first joint episode this year, after a couple weeks of...
Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing...
I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was already on there...
Toyota Production System Misconceptions: What Nampachi Hayashi Really Taught About TPS
tl;dr: A senior Toyota leader explains why the Toyota Production System is widely misunderstood. TPS is not just a set of tools, not just...
What We Learned from Touring Toyota’s San Antonio Plant
Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse backgrounds in manufacturing, healthcare, IT, government, and other industries or professions together to learn from each other in a "PowerPoint-free zone."
In this post, I'll share some photos and reflections on our tour of the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio (TMMTX). The visitor center has been completely revamped from my last visit, just as the one visitor center I saw in Japan back in March had been redone.
