Trivia Break

I woke up this morning to some very unsettling news, or should I say yet another crescendo in seven months of unsettling news.  Wishing the President and everyone in his sphere affected by this latest chapter of Covid-19 a speedy recovery, I’ll take the easy way out today with a short list of Trivia covering Lean and IoT for you to ponder over the weekend.  How many of these questions can you answer without using the Internet?

• Who is the creator of the X-Type Matrix for Policy Deployment? 

• Who did Shigeo Shingo pay homage to as “his teacher’s teachers”?

• What is the literal translation of Poka-Yoke? 

• When was The Machine That Changed The World published?

• What is the difference between Internet of Things and Industry 4.0?

• Who coined the term “knowledge worker”?

• When was Toast Kaizen first videoed? 

• Who said “If this Lean stuff seems easy, you’re probably not doing it.” ?

• When was the World Wide Web invented?

• When was the first toaster connected to the Internet?  

Have a relaxing weekend, puzzling over this trivia – think of it as preparation for next week’s big event.  Just four days to the 16^th Annual Northeast L.E.A.N. Conference.  I’ll be back on Monday with another Lean Peeve. 

Stay safe,

O.L.D.

By the way: On the afternoon of the first day of our conference we’ll also take a break from serious inquiry for some “Lean Before Dark” fun that may include more Trivia with a few prizes and possibly some asynchronous Karaoke.  Hope you can join in for the learning and for the fun.  Hope to see you.