Did Toyota fool the lean community for decades?

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Did Toyota fool the lean community for decades?

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    © Emiel vanEst Did Toyota Fool the Lean Community for Decades? Emiel van Est & Pascal Pollet March 2014

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    © Emiel vanEst In the Lean community we admire Taiichi Ohno for his role in the development of the Toyota Production System.

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    © Emiel vanEst Get ready to admire him even more!

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    © Emiel vanEst Hi I am Emiel van Est Toyota Kata ambassador The Netherlands I am Pascal Pollet Toyota Kata ambassador Belgium emiel@leanmanagement.nl pascal.pollet@sirris.be

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    © Emiel vanEst Recently we read something amazing. Near the end of his life Taiichi Ohno said in an interview:

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    © Emiel vanEst “I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.” - Taiichi Ohno - Source: Profitability With No Boundaries P99

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    © Emiel vanEst “But I was very, very concerned that you Americans and the Europeans would understand what we were doing, copy it, and defeat us in the marketplace.” - Taiichi Ohno - Source: Profitability With No Boundaries P99

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    © Emiel vanEst Hey, wait a minute, I thought Toyota had been very open to us…

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    © Emiel vanEst “I did my best to prevent the visitors from fully grasping our overall approach.” - Taiichi Ohno - Source: Profitability With No Boundaries P99