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November 7, 2012
In this post I’ll run though the awesome book: The Toyota Way. Fewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, product development, and process excellence. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking […]
November 2, 2012
The Power of Six Sigma: An Inspiring Tale of How Six Sigma Is Transforming the Way We Work By Subir Chowdhury The concept of Six Sigma is often difficult to explain, let alone put into practice. To simplify the method and exemplify the benefits of the business philosophy, Subir Chowdhury, has created a fictionalized tale […]
September 13, 2012
by neilio This is a post which extracts a tiny bit of the wisdom (more to follow) contained in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig and merges it with the philosophy behind The Toyota Way. She came trotting by with her watering pot between those two doors, going from the corridor […]
August 29, 2012
Jeff Hajek’s Whaddaya Mean I Gotta Be Lean? Building the bridge from job satisfaction to corporate profit” is written for the people at the sharp-end of the Lean transformation process. Hajek says the main goals of the book are to: 1) increase the collaboration between overwhelmed employees and overburdened managers and 2) help the frontline […]
August 14, 2012
by DonnaGrayson Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~ Chinese Proverb The 2009-2011 Toyota vehicle recalls involved three separate but related recalls of automobiles by Toyota Motor Corporation that occurred at the end of 2009 and start of 2010, you can read the full recall timeline of events here. At the time the […]
June 3, 2012
Jeff Hajek’s Whaddaya Mean I Gotta Be Lean? Building the bridge from job satisfaction to corporate profit” is written for the people at the sharp-end of the Lean transformation process. Hajek says the main goals of the book are to: 1) increase the collaboration between overwhelmed employees and overburdened managers and 2) help the frontline […]
April 11, 2012
by Big Grey Mare I’ve recently read two books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb who is an ex-trader. The first: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, looks at how and why we tend to assume the existence of patterns where there is only randomness, and assume skill where there […]
March 27, 2012
by kool_skatkat I’ve been reading this excellent post from Jon: One of the people I most respect as a business leader often repeats the phrase “go slow to go fast”. There is a nearly identical Toyota way principle which states that slow and deliberate planning will speed up execution of that plan greatly. The reverse […]
March 30, 2013
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