Shingo on Shingo

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Dr. Gerhard Plenert recently joined the Shingo Prize Institute as the Director of Executive Education. This is a faculty position in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. As a consultant, Dr. Gerhard Plenert has been helping organizations execute operational and supply chain transformations for more than twenty years. Dr. Plenert was also a tenured full professor at California State University, Chico, and a professor at BYU Provo, BYU Hawaii, the University of Malaysia, and the University of San Diego

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Shigeo Shingo was the foremost Lean methods authority and documenter. His books were the first analyses of the Toyota Production System.The Shingo Prize, which is administered by the Shingo Institute, was established in 1988 and endorsed by Dr. Shingo.The Shingo Prize is a global program that acknowledges enterprises that excel in Lean culture, systems, and results. The model upon which the Shingo Prize is based, as well as its guiding principle and identification of related insights of enterprise excellence (namely that ideal results require ideal behavior, beliefs and systems drive behavior, and principles inform ideal behaviors) have evolved from Shingo's texts and anlyses of excellence.

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Chapter 1: Shigeo Shingo The Man, His Methods, and His Impact on the Lean World

Chapter 2: The Shingo Model -- Guiding Principles

Chapter 3: Insights of Enterprise Excellence

Chapter 4: Putting it All Together -- The Shingo Enterprise Excellence Model

Chapter 5: Shigeo Shingo -- His Legacy and the Future