Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 300
The signal needs a response owner
Toyota-system communication becomes reliable when connections are explicit, abnormalities are visible, and signals carry defined response authority at the point of work.
Premise
Lean communication is an analytical umbrella for communication mechanisms embedded in the Toyota Production System, not one canonical Toyota tool. TPS makes work, connections, status, standards, and abnormalities explicit enough that people can know what should happen, identify deviation, request help, respond directly, and improve the operating system. That shifts the executive question from ‘Are people communicating?’ to ‘Is the critical interface designed so a request and response can be traced?’
What the model is: Lean Communication / Toyota Production System in Knowledge →
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.