CEO Blog
JUNE 19, 2011
Liker, author of esteemed lean production manual The Toyota Way decided he should again focus on Toyota’s cultural efforts, but this time with a bit of a twist. Methods of improvement during the recession were not limited to Toyota staff and production facilities, but extend to suppliers as well. Co-authors Jeffrey K.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2011
While in Kansai, Japan's second economic engine based around the city of Osaka, I found things operating pretty much as normal. And anger, too, is growing at the western media for ignoring the plight of the people in Tohoku and at foreign companies for abandoning Japan (more on this below).
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