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Toyota’s Ideas for Good Finalist Show Ingenuity 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- April 25, 2011
A couple of months ago I mentioned Toyota’s new challenge called Ideas for Good. The idea was to take Toyota’s technology to solve a problem to make our world a better place like this idea to help during natural disasters. They have picked the 25 finalist, 5 from each technology category, from all the
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Respect for People – Support Japan 0
- In the News
- March 16, 2011
Source of Photo : AP The last several days has been consumed with news from Japan after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and devastating tsunami. My company OFS is owned by FEC, a Japanese manufacturer, so I have been in touch with a number of colleagues since this disaster. We have been fortunate that no employees
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Lean for Haiti 0
- In the News
- January 13, 2011
Yesterday, marked the 1st anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. My friend and fellow Lean Blogger Mark Graban has a new project to spread Lean Thinking, a volunteer’s personal story of supporting Haiti in the aftermath, and the awareness of Haiti relief needs. The project is Lean for Haiti. In the truest
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Toyota: Ideas for Good 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- January 10, 2011
Toyota has a new challenge. Ideas for Good takes Toyota’s technologies combined with your ideas to make a better world. Big ideas are bigger than cars. Toyota has proved this time and time again by sharing their big inventions with the world outside of cars. Everybody has a few good ideas, and Toyota wants to help
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Team Selection: Best and Brightest or Not 0
- In the News
- December 21, 2010
I came across this comic the other day and paused. It is really about a stereotype of continuous improvement teams that I don’t agree with. While it shouldn’t matter who we pick from organization for an improvement team or initiative in the begining it does. During the early stages of a transformation the selection of the team
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A Lean Environment is One Where They Present You With Solutions 0
- In the News, Other
- October 19, 2010
I saw this comic at ONEFTE.com that made me pause a little. I know this comic is poking fun at the corporate lifestyle that many experience. But as I reflected on this comic I thought to myself there are places in which this situation is true. In a Lean Thinking organization it is the goal to have empowered
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