Articles

Purpose, Passion, and Performance: The Power of Omotenashi in the Workplace

by Michael Martyn

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That Shingo Feeling

by Lisa Riley, The Manufacturing Institute

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Avoiding Continuous Appearance

by Patrick Adams, Shingo Publication Award recipient

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The Key Relationships Between Align, Enable, and Improve

by Jacob Raymer, Shingo Academy Member and Shingo Faculty Fellow

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Engaging Employees to a True Purpose

by John Quirke, Partner, S A Partners

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Rethinking What Toyota Taught Us: Tesla Here We Come!

by Norbert Majerus, Shingo Faculty Fellow In his article “Unlearning What Toyota Taught Us,” John McElroy lauds Tesla’s success with electric vehicles (EVs) and describes how the company has outpaced Toyota with EVs. He references the book The Toyota Product Development System when describing the highly standardized Toyota product development process and contrasts it with the […]

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Lessons on Enterprise Alignment from the Peloton

by Nancy Nouaimeh, XcelliUm Consultancy, Shingo Licensed Affiliate. Enterprise alignment means getting every person in the organization to ride in the same direction. Such alignment makes the organization, teams, and individuals stronger, and it allows us to achieve better results at all possible levels.

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Compliance versus Commitment

by Douglas Dawson, Founder and Managing Director, Leg Up Solutions LLC Stephen Jay Gould, former Harvard University professor and leading evolutionary biologist, said, “I am somehow less concerned with the weight and convolution of Einstein’s brain, than I am in the certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in the cotton fields […]

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The Digital Model Factory: Improvement Sub-Systems Training Aligned to the Shingo Model

By Damla Akgül and Doğan Hasan, UnoPro Academy The aim of this study is to research and evaluate the alignment and contribution of experiential Lean and digital transformation workshops in the Digital Model Factory in a virtual reality environment to the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and improvement sub-systems, as taught in the […]

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Why Not Collaborate? Check the Three Insights of Organizational Excellence

by Bruce Hamilton, Shingo Examiner and member of the Shingo Academy. Collaboration is a prized quality of enterprise excellence more frequently discussed as an elusive ideal than actually practiced.

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