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Wrestling With Commitment: The Kaizen Flag and What It Really Signals

Let the kaizen flag help flag the need for commitment Following my blogs on Monozukuri and Hitozukuri, this piece ...
30.01.2026

Part 7 – GEN-OPS as a Modern Expression of the Toyota Way

How GENEO scales respect for people and continuous improvement in a digital world The Toyota Way is often summarised ...
21.01.2026

Part 6 – Where Monozukuri and Hitozukuri Meet: Continuous Improvement

A GENEO perspective on embedding improvement into everyday work Continuous improvement is often spoken about as a cultural aspiration. ...
21.01.2026

Part 4 – Hitozukuri Is Not Training: How Standards Develop Thinking

A GENEO perspective on capability, learning, and developing people through work In many organisations, hitozukuri, the development of people, ...
21.01.2026
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Part 3 – Digital Monozukuri: Making Quality Visible at the Element Level

A GENEO perspective on clarity, craftsmanship, and modern standardised work Digital technology has promised many things to operations, amongst ...
21.01.2026

Part 2 – Why Monozukuri Fails When Standards Become Documents

A GENEO perspective on standardised work, clarity, and operational excellence Most organisations do not struggle because they lack standards. ...
21.01.2026

Part 5 – The Role of Standardised Work in Hitozukuri

Standardised Work as a Leadership Development System A GENEO perspective on visibility, behaviour, and how leaders learn to lead ...
21.01.2026
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Part 1 – Monozukuri and Hitozukuri in a Digital World | GENEO

A GENEO perspective on standards, people, and modern operational excellence Why Monozukuri and Hitozukuri still matter in a Digital ...
21.01.2026

Summary – Monozukuri and Hitozukuri in the Modern Enterprise: Why Standards, People, and Systems Must Be Designed Together

Monozukuri and Hitozukuri in the Modern Enterprise: Why Standards, People, and Systems Must Be Designed Together Most organisations talk ...
21.01.2026
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Mono, Hito, Hansei: Why Toyota’s Continuous Improvement Engine Defies The Odds

And why most organisations stop one step too early in their Continuous Improvement journey. In my previous article written ...
15.01.2026

The Team Leader Ratio – whoopsies, there goes Monozukuri!

An Overlooked Structural Lever in Continuous Improvement: The Team Leader Ratio   I’m angry. After more decades than I ...
19.12.2025

What is a ‘transformation’ really?

What do we really mean when we say ‘transformation’?   Not long ago I was having lunch with a ...
09.12.2025
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