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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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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

Deming Institute

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Variation appears in how well the parts are eventually integrated into a system and, how well the system performs, day after day. with systemic explorations of “how well?”. Post by Bill Bellows. What is quality?

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