Tag: Toyota

Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto...

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Updated May 2024: I worked with ChatGPT 4 to create a longer, hopefully better, version of the alternate history story here. ChatGPT is still all...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 27th, 2023

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Lean Whiskey #37: Starbucks’ Gemba, Toyota’s Tour, Product Innovation & Lean...

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"I'll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte... to-go." Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In Episode 37, we wish...

The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan

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When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...

What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in...

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There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial and, of...

Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic

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A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory" Last year, I wrote a post that criticized those, including the Wall St Journal, who...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 18, 2022

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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! Get these directly...

At Toyota: Mistakes are OK, as Long as We Learn; Culture...

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The book that I'm writing on learning from mistakes is not an academic research-driven project. My "field research" mainly consists of the 200 podcast...

Gerald Harris on Lean Leadership Lessons From Automotive Manufacturing, Consulting, and...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #459 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is my colleague, Gerald Harris,...

Ken Pilone, the Author of Lean Leadership on a Napkin; Toyota...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #455 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ken Pilone. He is...

Maybe “Just in Time” (JIT) Should Be Called “Short Lead Time”...

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This is the starting point for a blog post that I should expand on... after posting these initial thought fragments on LinkedIn. JIT might have...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 12th, 2022

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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! Insights about improvement, innovation,...
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