From the course: From Resisting to Embracing Lean: A Case Study

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From the course: From Resisting to Embracing Lean: A Case Study

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All employees meeting

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(air whooshing) (speaker speaking in a foreign language) - [Translator] Good morning everybody. We want to give a warm welcome to two individuals. If I can have the Gemba slide. I want to give a big round of applause to two gentlemen that are in the broadcasting world, known by Ron and Greg. (applause) Let's give a big round of applause. Ron and Greg come from a company by the name Gemba Academy. Some of you have heard the word Gemba, which is in Japanese, the workplace, the actual, the real place, where the action happens. (speaker speaking in a foreign language) Among Japanese business people, it's a place where value is added onto the part. In our western countries, the most important places in the company are the offices, that's what western companies think. Japanese think that the most important place in a company is the part where the parts are being transformed; in our company, it's the production environment.…

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