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"A prophet is never known into our own house: A discussion with Norman Bodek, the Godfather of Lean (Part 1)."

In the early 90’s I was involved with the implementation of a Kanban materials management system for a company converting to a JIT environment. A key part of my role was educating over 300 employees on the concepts of JIT.

At the time, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. But I invested many hours reading and learning about JIT and what is now commonly referred to as lean.

After 20 plus years of teaching the APICS Body of Knowledge I decided to try and interview some of the great thinkers I have been learning from for so many years. After a little research I realized two things. One, many of the people are deceased, and two, many had one person in common, Norman Bodek, the Godfather of lean.

We recently sat down with Norman Bodek to get a better understanding of his impact on lean and current thoughts.

Take a listen to this three part interview with Norman. I hope you enjoy listening as much as we did getting to know the Godfather of Lean…And you gotta love his laugh.

https://supplychainnowradio.com/episode-237/

Key learning points from part 1 include:

- Becoming socially responsible (3:00)
- Learn about the triple bottom line (6:37)
- Gratitude to APICS (8:28)
- The basis of JIT and the Toyota Production System (9:38)
- A magnet for greatness (10:58)
- The tortoise and the hare (11:39)
- Pay attention to your Jiminy Cricket (12:29)
- Learn everyday (13:38)
- Have a clear goal; what do you want to be the best in the world at (13:43)
- The cleanest airport in the world (14:46)
- Getting fired (15:28)I heart NY
- Productivity (16:30)
- Milton Glaser “I love New York” (17:10)
- The start of “Productivity Press” (18:40)
- You will figure it out (19:00)
- Industry Week (19:27)
- They improved (21:00)
- The Fear of Failure (21:35)
- Quality control circle (21:52)
- Deming (22:09)
- General MacArthur (23:23)
- JUSE (23:45)
- Statistical process control and stable processes (24:19)
- Ishikawa and total quality management (25:06)
- The Deming Prize (25:24)
- The Shingo Prize (25:36)
- A prophet is never known into our own house (26:47)

Read more supply chain musings at

https://apicsdotcoach.wordpress.com/

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