John Bicheno reviews The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis, McGraw Hill, 2012

Jeffrey Liker has established himself as the author on the Toyota system.

THE FIFTH COLUMN 

Leaders and decisions – Two stories

The proposal for the new initiative had been developed by a sub-set within Marketing.

John Bicheno reviews The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis, McGraw Hill, 2012

Jeffrey Liker has established himself as the author on the Toyota system.

SCGM’s CEO, Sandra Cadjenovic, gives LMJ an account of the progress the company has made in its lean programme over the last month, starting with some serious tiding up of the machines.

The eyes of the world may have been on London this summer, but in the meantime Lake Region Medical won a prize of its own, becoming the first Irish company to be awarded a Shingo Accredition Bronze Medallion.

Editorial board member Jacob Austad warns against the risk of standardising for the sake of using standards.

In this review, editorial board member Peter Watkins, of GKN, pulls out some of the key learning’s from Robin Howlett’s article on leadership standard work.

Mark Adams, Vice President of purchasing at Toyota Europe, discusses the car maker’s supply chain in the UK and Europe and the company’s approach to leadership and risk assessment.

Ian Tindle, Director at Sora Group, and Peter Watkins, Global Business Excellence Director at GKN, explain how a structured approach to maintenance improvement is helping to drive the desired maintenance leadership traits at GKN Rockford (which manufactures powertrain systems and components in Illinois, United States), and some of the key aspects required to improve operations.