Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). Follow the link on the quote text for the source and more information on the quote.

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Ohno McGregor Deming System 76

Deming Institute

AUGUST 24, 2017

Once upon a time, well before his name entered lean folklore, Taiichi Ohno graduated from industrial school and earned a position with Toyoda Spinning & Weaving as a supervisor. The year was 1933 and Ohno soon became well known for his mustache, added to further his image of authority with his direct reports, a large group of women. Ohno entered auto production from the mills in 1943, after both companies were merged by their leading customer, the Japanese military.

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Ohno Maturity Efficiency Resistance 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories.

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Ohno Six Sigma Productivity Products 50

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

I published and presented (I think at an ASQ conference though I can’t recall which one right now) a paper on Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource in 1999. There are many things needed to improve the success of organizations improvement efforts but I believe the right knowledge (the ideas talked about by Deming, Ackoff, Ohno, Scholtes, etc.) This month the ASQ is asking Influential Voices to discuss methods to aid in sharing knowledge.

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Technology Ohno Deming Handbook 85

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

According to Togo, Toyota’s JIT system, under the direction of Taiichi Ohno, was extremely successful in saving time in moving products through development at lightning speed, yet only to face disgruntled customers in the marketplace, with long lines of products in need of immediate repair. He was an invaluable teacher…, playing an indispensable role in the development and revitalization of post-war Japan. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality.

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Deming Quality Ohno Seminar 40