Highlights from our Lean Event Tour at Toyota Part 1 on Our Symposium on Learning…
Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse…
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#TBT: The Term “Lean Production” is Now 30 Years Old A look back at a…
Today is a throwback to a throwback, in a way. Five years ago, I blogged about how the term "Lean Production" was…
A Look Back at Posts About Visiting Toyota Plants in Texas and Japan
Today, I'll be touring the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio again, the plant known as TMMTX. I'm there with our…
More on Teaching TQM, TPS, Lean, and Kaizen to Doctors in Japan Part 3 in a series…
In the third and final part of this series, I share more about how Toyota teaches about TPS and TQM... and how they…
How Toyota Teaches a Japanese Hospital’s Doctors About TQM Part 2 in a…
Last week, I wrote about the influence of Total Quality Management (TQM) on Toyota -- in the past and the present,…
TQM at Toyota and the Influence on Lean – Past and Present, Japan and U.S. …
I'm very excited to be leaving for Japan for another study trip in just over a month. This will be my second trip…
Podcast #311 – Jess Orr, #Lean Leadership Lessons from Toyota and Beyond
My guest for Episode 311 is Jess Orr, a continuous improvement practitioner at WestRock, a large paper and…
The Catch-22 of #Lean & Kaizen: You Get More ROI by NOT Focusing Only on…
This post builds off of a little rant I went on over on LinkedIn. I wrote:
The Catch-22 of "Lean" training and…
Comparing Toyota’s Latest Ramp Up to Tesla’s
The first thing that prompted me to write this post is an interesting article about Toyota and their Georgetown,…
Podcast #307 – Andre DeMerchant, “You Can’t Cut Your Way to…
Joining me for Episode #307 of the podcast is my friend Andre DeMerchant, the President of DeMerchant Healthcare…
Hey @ElonMusk: Toyota Never Thought “Humans are Underrated”
Over the past month, there's been so much in the news about Tesla. This column from Joann Muller, who covers the…
Podcast #304 – David Meier, Lessons and Wisdom from Toyota
Back on the podcast for the fifth time is my friend David Meier, a Lean / TPS consultant who is a former Toyota…
Managers Must Help The People They Supervise Otherwise, what's the path to getting…
Last week, a nurse manager downloaded the free first chapter of my book Lean Hospitals and wrote this message in…
The Academy Awards Add an Inspector, Practice “Andon Cord Pulls,”…
Tomorrow, my post will be about headlines that scream about ratings for The Oscars being "down from last year" or…
What’s Going at Toyota? A Newly-Centralized TPS Group
Here's an interesting Bloomberg article about Toyota never being satisfied, which includes improving the way they…
Lessons from the NUMMI 10th Anniversary Book Published in 1994 "Lean" does not…
I did manage to buy a book that was published by NUMMI to celebrate their 10th anniversary. "10 Years of Quality…
What Books on #Lean and TPS Are Sold at the Toyota Museum in Nagoya?
It's Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan as I write this. I'm still jet-lagged and up early, so here's a blog post…
Podcast #300 – Tracey & Ernie Richardson, The Toyota Engagement…
My guests for Episode #300 of the podcast are Tracey and Ernie Richardson, authors of the excellent book titled:…