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Volume 10 Issue 6 | June 2009 | www.superfactory.com |
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Now is the time to invest in lean improvements. Check out Gemba Academy, including the four free online video Our friend Bob Emiliani returns this month with another well-researched Featured Article titled The Toyota Half-Way, which once again takes us to task for forgetting some of the fundamentals of real lean. For a dose of scary- but-true sarcasm, take a look at the Featured Blog Post by Bill Waddell titled If Baseball Were Run Like Fortune 500 Manufacturing.
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By Bob Emiliani, The CLBM LLC Just about everyone interested in Lean management has by now heard of The Toyota Way. But have you ever heard of The Toyota Half-Way? Probably not, but that is exactly what most people are doing in their Lean activities. In April 2001, Toyota Motor Corporation produced a document for internal use called “The Toyota Way 2001” [1]. It is a 13-page booklet, produced at the request of the then-president Fujio Cho, that describes the unique aspects of Toyota’s culture which contributed to its success. The document was produced to help ensure a consistent understanding of The Toyota Way among all associates in response to the rapid growth and globalization of Toyota Motor Corporation. However, as Mr. Kazuhara, the general manager of final assembly Toyota’s Motomachi plant told me on 14 June 2001, the fact that The Toyota Way has been written down means nothing: “Words are just words, there is more to it [the Toyota Way] than just words.” He said it is the responsibility of each supervisor to bring The Toyota Way to life through daily practice and train future generations of managers and associates on-the-job [2]. |
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Featured Evolving Excellence Blog Post
If Baseball Were Run Like Fortune 500 Manufacturing The Houston Astros announced today that Mr. Cuthbert Snodgrass has been named Manager and will immediately take over the team with the worst record in Major League Baseball. In a press release issued this morning, the owner acknowledged that Snodgrass has no prior baseball experience as a coach or a player. Said team owner Jack Cass, "At the end of every game, when I see that the other team has scored more runs than we have, it is clear that we need a strategy to change our focus from hitting, pitching and fielding to mastering the scoreboard. Cuthbert is clearly the best man for the job." Snodgrass stated, "Not only do I have a masters degree in engineering with a major in Computer and Information Science from Penn, I went on to get my PhD in Mathematics and Computational Science. As a result, I am very confident in my knowledge of how baseball scores are calculated, and I am quite comfortable with the inner workings of the JumboTron scoreboard that displays them, as well." He added that his first move as coach had been to fire assistant coach Lefty Jones and replace him with Edith Foureyes, a Yale attorney who has memorized the Official Rules of Major League Baseball and will be responsible for strategic planning and representing the team in disputes with umpires. When a reporter pointed out that Penn is currently in last place in the Ivy League, Snodgrass expressed surprise - not that they were in last place but that the Ivy league had baseball teams. He dismissed concerns by pointing to the fact that he and his sister had placed 3rd in the junior level mixed doubles squash tournament two years in a row at the country club. "As a result of that experience, I know all anyone needs to about the sweat and stress of competitive sports. Just the same, I plan to tour the players' locker room at least once a month to keep in touch with the whole athletic thing," he added. |
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Welcome to the Superfactory Newsletter!
modules on Introduction to Lean, The Ten Commandments of Continuous Improvement, VSM Overview, and 5S Overview. A nine module series on The Seven Deadly Wastes has just been added to the School of Lean.
We continue to develop our ".am" series of morning aggregated news websites. 
There are now a total of nine, including 
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Whaddaya Mean I Gotta Be Lean?
The Toyota Half-Way