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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

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.

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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

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.) It may well be you print out various things to post and make more visible (depending on what makes sense for the work environment).