Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

This week's guest is Nigel Thurlow, Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected. Nigel explained how Toyota uses agile, and why it's so important for organizations to be able to understand complex problems and adapt to fast-changing conditions. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  About Nigel (2:34) The roots of PDCA and empiricism (5:32) Understanding complexity and teamwork (6:29) Why organizational agility matters (9:10) Designing the value stream (13:40) How this thinking has been received at Toyota (15:22) Nigel's thoughts on Amazon (19:09) His advice moving forward (20:28) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Nigel on LinkedIn Toyota Connected  Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes acc