by Patrick Adams, Shingo Publication Award recipient
by Jacob Raymer, Shingo Academy Member and Shingo Faculty Fellow
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
by The Manufacturing Institute The term burnout was coined in the 1970s by the American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger to describe the consequences of severe stress.
Lead with Sincerity, Serve from the Heart, Take Pride in Your Work by Michael Martyn Recently, the Shingo Institute held its 34th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference was “Building a Culture of Growing, Enduring Excellence”