Lean Initiatives Toyota Impact

The current Toyota quality debacle should cause pause, when pitching new lean initiatives to executives. However, be prepared to discuss Toyota's deviation from the methods and principles in the context of global growth and scale. ...

... "the company has fallen below its traditional high standards, rather than tarnishing the validity of Lean principles and practices. Lean is now bigger than Toyota and one of the most influential process inventions of the last half-century ... " ...

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