Tag: Kaizen
🚗 How Toyota Built Agile Before Agile Existed – Lessons from the Lean Revolution
1. The Context – Japan’s Postwar Crisis and Toyota’s Constraint In the late 1940s, Japan’s economy was shattered.Toyota, a small automaker compared to global giants like Ford, couldn’t compete in volume, scale, or capital. But instead of copying Detroit’s assembly-line model, Toyota flipped the script:If we can’t be the fastest or the largest, we’ll be…
Debunking the Myth: Project Quality Management Is a One-Time Activity
The Final Inspection Fallacy “Check quality at the end and fix what’s broken!” It’s a tempting shortcut in project management. But here’s the truth: treating quality as a final step can lead to costly rework, missed deadlines, and unhappy stakeholders. I’ve learned this the hard way—today, we’re busting the myth that quality management is a…
