Tag: Toyota

#LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes – Get Out of the Building

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In his kickoff to the Lean Startup Conference, Eric Ries promised that there was so much content and so many speakers crammed into the...

Guest Post: The Risk of Ignoring Muri

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Today's guest post is by author  Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for  Podcast #145.   While doing research for another project, I had the...

Andon Cords at the Toyota Takaota Plant – It Doesn’t Come...

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Yesterday, I was able to visit Toyota City as part of the Kaizen Institute tour I am a part of. Now, we weren't able...

Highlights From My First Lean Study Trip to Japan, Day 1

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I know many of you aren't into the whole Twitter thing, but I'm using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches...

Visiting the Toyota Museum in Nagoya

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While I'm in Japan this week (read about the trip), I'm going to keep my blogging light - my aim is to share one...

A Panel of Early Lean Lab Innovators

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This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio....

Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1

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Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...

Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma” Please

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My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I've just really never done much with Six Sigma....

Guest Post: Kaizen and Passion

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from a friend of mine from The Netherlands. I had a chance to visit Marc and his hospital...

Guest Post: 11 Common Misconceptions About Lean

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Mark's note: Here's another great vacation guest post by Jeff Hajek: By Jeff Hajek Despite having been fairly main stream for going on three decades now,...

Guest Post: Reports of Kaizen’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

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Mark's note: Today's vacation post is from my good friend Dan Markovitz, who normally blogs here.  Listen to my podcasts with him here...

The Two Root Causes of Everything?

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One thing I have enjoyed in the past few years is meeting and working with more people with direct experience working at Toyota (including...
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