{"id":119669,"date":"2019-06-28T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/?p=119669"},"modified":"2022-06-27T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:23:15","slug":"japan-study-trip-and-lean-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/2019\/06\/28\/japan-study-trip-and-lean-immersion\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Study Trip and Lean Immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"
May, 2019 \u2013 Laurie Fiorica and Hilary Hellman attended Japan Study Trip and Lean Immersion<\/a> with KBJ Anderson Consulting<\/a>. See Itinerary here<\/a>. Meet our trip guide, Katie Anderson<\/a>. See our fellow attendees (Elisabeth Swan<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Tracy ORourke<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Trish Hackemack<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>MaryBeth Jermyn<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Hilary Hellman<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Laurie Fiorica<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Jacqueline Riphenburg<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Rachael Blomeley<\/span><\/a>, Tara Swarts, & Elske Heeren ,<\/span>Shawn Carner<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Chris Dempsey<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Juan Manuel Jordan<\/span><\/a>, Sergio Vergara, and <\/span>Jim Alvarez<\/span><\/a> <\/span>). Highlights included: tours of Toyota<\/a>, Ina Foods with Chairman Mr. Tsukakoshi and his book \u201cTree Ring Management<\/a>\u201d, Isuzu Steel (Toyotal Tier 3 Supplier) Tsuda Elementary School, Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital with Dr. Satoru Komatsumoto, President of Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital, Ogura Metal with Ms Noriko Ogura, head of the Ogura Plant, and Mifune (Toyota Tier 2 Supplier). We also heard from Mr. Teruo Yabe \u2013 former President of the Tessei Shinkansen Cleaning Company<\/a> (picture above) with station tour and observation of the 7-Minute Miracle; Ms. Toshiko Kawanami \u2013 a female executive from Japan; and Mr. Isao Yoshino, a Toyota Manager and coach.<\/p>\n It is a small world. . . .I knew MaryBeth from Eastman Kodak days and her husband from grammer school (although, he didn’t remember me) and Elisabeth Swan was an instructor for the class “Kodak Delivers What Customers Want”, which was a great simulation.<\/p>\n The trip was inspiring, tiring, and rejuvenating.\u00a0 The restrooms were pretty cool too.\u00a0 https:\/\/kbjanderson.com\/japanese-public-restrooms-lean-in-action\/<\/a><\/p>\n Several key and fun takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n Katie is doing two trips in 2020.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May, 2019 \u2013 Laurie Fiorica and Hilary Hellman attended Japan Study Trip and Lean<\/a> Immersion with KBJ Anderson Consulting<\/a>. See Itinerary here. Meet our trip guide, Katie Anderson. See our fellow attendees (Elisabeth Swan, Tracy ORourke, Trish Hackemack, MaryBeth Jermyn, Hilary Hellman, Laurie Fiorica, Jacqueline Riphenburg, Rachael Blomeley, Tara Swarts, & Elske Heeren ,Shawn Carner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121794,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119669\/revisions\/121794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancillarycarestrategies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n