
Japan gemba visit – innovation through kaizen
Two weeks ago I joined a Japan Lean study trip tour led by Makoto Investments and had the opportunity to visit three different Japanese manufacturing organizations.
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Two weeks ago I joined a Japan Lean study trip tour led by Makoto Investments and had the opportunity to visit three different Japanese manufacturing organizations.

On Monday I had the honor to spend the day with Isao Yoshino, a 40-year Toyota executive and one of John Shook’s first managers at Toyota, and visited
How many times have you asked a question, and then realized a few words into the response, that you are listening to your own thoughts
Last week I led a seminar on team dynamics for one of the foreign embassies in Japan. The team of twelve people were all Japanese-natives,
In the three and a half weeks that we’ve been in Japan, I am intrigued by the comments many working foreigners have made that, as

We have arrived in Japan! We arrived to Tokyo from San Francisco in the wee hours of this morning! While my husband and older son
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