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Toyota Lean Academy team members are all highly experienced professionals with a deep understanding of lean principles, to bring real value to customer operations.
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Scaling lean across the business
Scaling lean across the business
The Leadership Network explores the marriage of two working cultures with a series of articles about Toyota's introduction of lean to Europe. In this second piece we take a closer look at the practices involved in creating harmony and success at plants around the world, uniting diverse cultures and mindsets with a universal set of lean values and processes.
When the Sensei goes away
When the Sensei goes away
Implementing operational excellence into your work culture can be a challenge. That was as well the case during our journey in which we embedded Japanese thinking into all our European teams and processes. We started by adopting, adapting and maintaining lean working practices by building the foundations of a continuous improvement mindset.
Leading teams with empathy
Leading teams with empathy – the Toyota way
Toyota is a brand that embodies production precision driven by meticulous management. Synonymous with excellence, international reputation is undoubtedly the result of a workforce that is engaged, committed and valued. But how does Toyota achieve this? The answer is through strong and transparent leadership that values all stakeholders at every level of the business.
Signify case study
TLA supports Signify in lean leadership
Signify has been on the lean journey for many years already and applies an advanced level of lean to their operations. Since they're not new to lean, their lean programme didn't start from a beginner level.
They already used lean as a tool to involve all employees from the top all the way down to the factory floor in the change process.
Their employees taking part in the lean trainings had high expectations and wanted to be challenged, expecting the lean advisors to elevate their knowledge of lean to a higher level.
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Toyota is the world-recognized origin of lean-thinking, built on the foundation of the Toyota Production System. At Toyota we put a lot of emphasis on the foundational elements. Visual management, 5S and daily management are the methods that shape a company's culture and prepare it for lean transformation. Not only do we focus on optimising the flow, but we prioritise people and their skill development, as they are key to drive change and optimise processes. We also dig deep into the leadership behaviour of the company as we know that support and involvement from the top down is the key to ensuring lean transformation results that will stand the test of time.