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Takehiko Harada

Toyota production system and lean expert

Takehiko Harada joined Toyota Motor Corp. in 1968 as head of the machine department and head of engineering works, as well as the project general manger of the Operations Management Consulting Division (Toyota’s Toyota Production System deployment group). In 1999 Harada was the CEO for Kuozui Motors (Taiwan’s Toyota Motors), and in 2000 he became a director of Toyota Motor Corp. Harada was president of Chuo Spring, an automotive parts manufacturer, from 2005 until he retired in 2010. Currently Harada tirelessly shows company leaders how to use lean to make great working environments, not profits at the expense of employees.

Tue, 05/24/2016 - 16:34
Kaizen Equals Getting Closer to the Final ProcessHow Taiichi Ohno created just-in-time at Toyota
Tue, 05/24/2016 - 16:34
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the book, Management Lessons From Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn From the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System, by Takehiko Harada (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015). The phrase, “kaizen equals…
      

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