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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
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Eventually, this group of ideas formed the core of the now world-famous Toyota Way: •Kaizen: continuous improvement (predating Shewhart but perhaps inspired by Sakichi reading Henry Ford’s book). •Jidoka: the machine stops when there’s a problem. •Andon cord: any worker can stop the assembly line when there’s a problem. •Go to gemba:** the supervis
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“OPDCA” version—which calls upon the practitioner to employ a continuous five-stage process in which he is to: “Observe, Plan, Do, Check, and Adjust.”
Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
Kaizen is a state of continuous improvement where people naturally look for ways to improve poorly performing practices.
Tonianne DeMaria Barry • Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Then one day, one of the developers came in with a Harvard Business Review paper from 1986, written by two Japanese business professors, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It was titled, “The New New Product Development Game.” Takeuchi and Nonaka had looked at teams from some of the world’s most productive and innovative companies: Honda, Fuji-X
... See moreJeff Sutherland • Scrum
