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Toyota managers know the road to Lean is by way of motivation

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri

Toyota managers know how to motivate and inspire people. In the West, most managers install Lean tools such as Kaizen Blitz or 5S, et cetera, but they rarely inspire and motivate all workers to participate fully in the improvement process. Norman Bodek reports from this past trip, that he found over 100 small but very powerful methods which Toyota uses to motivate and inspire its people.
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Pat ()

Newbie | 2008-01-15 19:31:00

i wonder how much more toyota can squeeze out of there processes -

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Chris ()

Newbie | 2008-01-15 19:33:33

i remember doing a course many years ago and the comment was - even if you can get the changeover down to 1 minute - thats 60seconds and thats a big number - so how do we get that number lower - the whole point about continous improvement - is that it is continuous

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