As I’ve written about in earlier posts, last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese “5S City” of Ashikaga to learn about how organizations in the town practice Lean management and how the concepts of “joy” and “revitalization” […]
Last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese town of Ashikaga, which considers itself to be the “5S Mecca of the world”, to learn about how organizations in the town practice Lean management and […]
Earlier this year I led a Lean study trip to the Japanese town of Ashikaga, which considers itself to be the “5S Mecca of the world”. As I wrote about in the first part of […]
Most of you have heard of “5S”, but have you ever heard of an entire city that has rallied around the concepts of 5S with over 200 organizations practicing 5S daily? Lean study trip to Ashikaga […]
As I shared in previous posts, Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) has been practicing parts of the Toyota Production System (TPS) for many years. However, the depth of TPS practice is not as advanced as many might […]
Last year I learned of a town in rural Japan that considers itself the “5S Mecca” of the world because of the entire town’s adoption of Japanese management principles known as “5S” (see the end of this […]
I recently saw the quote “Life less out of habit and more out of intent” (source unknown) and it really resonated with me, especially as I have been thinking about my goals and intentions for 2016. Intention […]
One of tenets of Lean and the Toyota Production System “visual management”: making things (work, processes, status, etc.) clearly visible (or audible) to the status of the system. For example is a guiding principle in “5S” […]
This past weekend I took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level 5) and saw this sign posted in the bathroom that made me laugh. It was a good stress reliever in advance of the test and got me […]
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