No Way Out

Insider Secrets Behind the Toyota Production System & Boyd's OODA Loop with Charlie Protzman | Ep 22

May 24, 2023 Mark McGrath and Brian "Ponch" Rivera Season 1 Episode 22
No Way Out
Insider Secrets Behind the Toyota Production System & Boyd's OODA Loop with Charlie Protzman | Ep 22
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Charlie Protzman is an international business consultant, multiple Shingo Prize-winning author, speaker, trainer, leadership coach and Implementer in Lean Business Delivery systems. Charlie has over 36 years of experience in Materials and Operations Management and has saved his clients millions of dollars. 

Specialties include training and implementing Lean Thinking / CI for manufacturing, healthcare, government, and service industries. Charlie is particularly experienced working with all types of process variation in assembly processes and is an expert at baton zone (bumping) line balancing.

Charlie has participated in train the trainer for Scrum The Toyota Way, Agile, The Flow System, and advanced training for the Cynefin Framework.

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Lean Leadership Basics
Charlie Protzman on LinkedIn
Business Improvement Group (BIG) Lean Consulting

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OODAcast Ep 113 – with Bob Gourley
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Salience – with Ian Snape, PhD
Connecting the Dots – with Skip Steward
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The Shingo Prize
1946: Japan, Gen. MacArthur, Sarasohn, Protzman
1950s: Japan, Deming, Drucker
Civil Communication Section (CCS)
A Leadership Purge Leads to American-Style Management
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle
Costs Up, Selling Price Up
Deming Didn’t Teach CCS Students Anything New
Who is Charles W. Protzman (Charlie’s Grandfather)
Overcoming Japan’s Power Distance Index
Newport News Shipbuilding Company (A Note on Quality)
From Training with Industry (TWI) to JKK at Toyota
Transitioning Veterans and the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Unlearning: The Shift from MBA Management to TPS Leadership
The Machine that Changed the World
A Shingo Prize Winner Visits Boyd’s Archives
John Boyd: I Cannot Believe They Are Calling this “Lean”
A Message to Lean Enthusiasts Who Dismiss Boyd
Implicit Guidance and Control (IG&C), Brain Efficiency, Entropy
Control is Outside-In Bottom-Up: Thoughts on Hoshin Planning
Workers Set Standards, Management Monitors
Healthy Paranoia
Kaizen (Continuous Incremental Change) is Bottom-Up First
Shingo: Don’t Blame the Worker
Don’t Blame Frederick W. Taylor
The Toyota Way? Toyota Production System? Kanban? Jidoka? People?
Charlie on Boyd’s Orientation
PDCA, OODA, and the Cynefin Framework
Charlie’s Client Learns to Create Mismatches
How to Connect with Charlie Protzman
Wrapping-up this Podcast Episode