Quality Management at ISB - Simulating Toyota's processess

Learning via applications is personal favourite of mine and often proves to be a more effective pedagogy. A number of our courses such as Management in organization, Managerial Decision making, Logistics and supply chain as well quality management are a chock a block with applications.

in quality for instance, in the first class wee took a VHS tape apart and calculated the cost and tried to redesign the product to obtain a lower cost. that was a wonderful exercise but the second class broke all records.

We simulated Toyota's lean manufacturing concept, replete with kanban cards and the like - it was Awesome.

Since pictures say it best, here are some pictures which show us as labourers trying to manufactures cars in a bid to make as much of profit as possible.

They are obviously in order ....