Tag: gemba
Management Articles
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Toyota's Top Engineer on How to Develop Thinking People
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Jon Miller, Taiichi Ohno
"Mr. Ohno often said to us, 'Don't look with your eyes, look with your feet. Don't think with you head, think with your hands.' He also taught us, 'People who can't understand numbers are useless. The gemba where numbers are not visible is also bad. However, people who only look at the numbers are the worst of all.'"
Management Web Sites and Resources
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Gemba Walkabout
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Mike Stoecklein
“Gemba walk” (lean thinking term) to go to the actual place where value is added + “walkabout” (Australian aborigine) a short period of wandering bush life engaged as an occasional interruption of regular work.