Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. Technology can help improve our adoption of better understanding. 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.) Wikis are a wonderful technology because of how easy they make the management of shared knowledge.

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Technology Ohno Deming Handbook 85

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. 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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Ohno Six Sigma Productivity Products 50