My interest in the Toyota Production system stems from 3 things:
1) it seems like a source of power. is the most sophisticated thinker about this topic for knowledge work, I think — he takes the principles and applies it to productivity: fortelabs.co/blog/series/ju
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2) Curiosity about Apple. I read Competing Against Time earlier this year — which is a Tim Cook recommendation (he assigned it to subordinates while COO).
But it seems Jobs was well aware of the power from TPS techniques since at least 1992:
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The other really interesting thing you learn from this timeline is that Jobs hired Cook to run the supply chain (meaning manufacturing and JIT up to all the suppliers, which is a Toyota thing) in 1998.
But he had been thinking about this since at least 1992.
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3) Tracing the lineage of ideas from lean, agile, scrum and kanban back to their source.
Which is what I argued in commoncog.com/blog/the-land-