COMPSTAT, which is short for COMPare STATistic, was created by Jack Maple in the early ’90s when he was a New York City transit cop. It became the most successful crime-fighting system, helping to reduce crime in New York City (results questioned by others). However, the program slowed transitioned from crime fighting tool to management […]
Watch the keynote presentation from Margarette Purvis, President/CEO of Food Bank for New York City, who provides an update on their Lean improvement work with Toyota (TSSC). Efforts resulted in $3 million in reduced inventory of slow moving food, increased distribution of kosher food by 27%, 86% increase in fresh produce to the poorest neighborhoods, […]
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Photos from improvement work conducted with nonprofits in the New York City area by Toyota support teams. View photos at: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/07/26/nyregion/20130726Kaizen.html
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Instead of donating money, Toyota offered Kaizen to the Food Bank of New York City. Toyota’s engineers cut down the wait time for dinner to 18 minutes from as long as 90 minutes. Read more at:Â http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-toyota-donates-efficiency-to-new-york-charity.html?pagewanted=all Â
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The short film chronicles how a team from Toyota’s TSSC organization collaborated with staff at Metro World Child, a mobile food distribution unit that distributes emergency food boxes to community members in the Far Rockaways in New York City. How can a non-profit implement Toyota’s legendary production system (TPS) to increase the number of meals […]
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The Community Kitchen & Food Pantry of West Harlem is a full-service soup kitchen and food pantry that helps provide more than 50,000 free meals to clients each month. The Community Kitchen needed help streamlining their service as clients were waiting outside in long lines and the dining room was only 77% utilized. Toyota identified […]
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The staff at a bureau within a large NYC municipal agency did not have an effective approach to managing the increasing burden of email. As a result, work piled up and deadlines slipped. People were overwhelmed and felt as though they had no control over their jobs. The staff was taught how to apply lean […]
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