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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.
– 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. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. – Peter Block. – Russell Ackoff.
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.
He was an invaluable teacher…, playing an indispensable role in the development and revitalization of post-war Japan. Nonetheless, TQC efforts were openly resisted by the JIT community, leading to “a group of nervous quality-control managers surrounding Shoichiro one day….
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. Creating a climate and expectation of continued learning is also important, but I won’t talk about that in this post. will help a great deal.
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