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Masaaki Imai • Gemba Kaizen
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
“Don’t accept defects, don’t make defects, and don’t pass on defects.”
Masaaki Imai • Gemba Kaizen
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
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W. Edwards Deming, father of the quality movement, may have put it best: “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, then you don’t know what you are doing.”
Karen Dillon • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Theory of Constraints, Lean production or the Toyota Production System, and Total Quality Management.
George Spafford • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Japanese companies looked for every point of friction in the manufacturing process and eliminated it.