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The Fall of the Mighty Toyota

02.17.2010

p=357 Killer decontenting: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/too-good-to-be-true-how-toyotas-success-caused-killer-decontenting/ Direct link to Toyota’s content: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572.aspx WSJ, the engineering problem: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703389004575032844153687042.html#mod=todays_us_opinion Lentz on NBC’s Today Show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35179161#35179161 http://www.inpursuitofelegance.com/post/2010/01/30/Toyota-Recall-The-Penalty-of-Leadership.aspx http://blogs.hbr.org/winston/2010/02/toyota-getting-squished.html?… p=365 http://www.lean.org/shook/ what Toyota workers are doing: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/83859.html Tom Johnson: http://blog.pegasuscom.com/Leverage-Points-Blog/bid/30450/How-Toyota-Ran-Off-the-Road-and-How-It-Can-Get-Back-on-Track Toyota right way to work: http://betterforeveryone.blogspot.com/2010/02/toyota-once-hailed-as-right-way-to-work.html Time: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100211/wl_time/08599196359500

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Measurement Misnomers, and Toyota Dealership Problems

01.29.2010

On our LinkedIn Group for the Lean Learning Center, we get many good discussions and questions. We had one from Roger Cook that I thought was worth repeating and expanding upon. Here is the question:

I’m curious if any of you have foolproof ways of insuring your metrics (which lean folks are famous for measuring everything) [...]

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Inside the mind of Taiichi Ohno

09.22.2009

A book that is more obscure than it deserves is Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management. When most people think of this father of the Toyota Production System, they focus on Taiichi Ohno’s Toyota Production System book. However, that book is more transcribed from Ohno’s thoughts. Workplace Management is more direct, and much more of his advice [...]

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