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Fujio Cho (張 富士夫, Chō Fujio, born February 2, 1937 [1]) is honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. Chō is only the second "outsider" to head Toyota Motor Co. since the members of the founding Toyoda family stepped aside in 1995. He earned a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tokyo in March 1960.
As President of Toyota Motor Corporation, Fujio Cho headed Toyota’s entire scope of operations from its world headquarters in Tokyo. He is widely regarded as the founding father of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. (TMC). Cho was instrumental in honing the company’s production system.
- Fujio Cho Legacy Lecture Notes
- Takashi Horinouchi
- How does wisdom relate to TPS?
- Sound Judgement and Swordsmanship: Miyamoto Musashi ( 宮本武蔵) and his Faraway Mountain View ( 遠山の目付) (Miyamoto Musashi, 1974)
- Two Different Culture: the West and the East
- VI. Deductive Science and Inductive TPS
- VII. Top-Down Power-Driven System vs. Bottom-up Kaizen System
- The Role of Struggle on Hitozukuri
- Learning is to Steal the Spirit of Art (Suzuki, 1973)
- IX. Eastern Philosophy, Mother Teresa, and TPS
- Shifting ego-centered life to service-centered by Mother Teresa
- Acknowledgements
Fujio Cho Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota-shi, Aichi, Japan
President, Toyota Production System Support Center, Inc. Vice President Operations Management and Development Division Toyota Motor North America
Wisdom is defined in chapter II as the application of knowledge, experience and sound judgement to make a sound action or decision. What is knowledge? Knowledge is facts, information and skills gained by a person through education or experience: the theoretical and practical understanding of a subject. What is experience? Experience is practical...
An interesting story about sound judgement attained by the master swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi; Miyamoto Musashi is the Japanese master swordsman who lived in seventeenth century Japan. In the battle of a Samurai sword match, losing it often meant a death. So, the swordsman’s life depends on win or loss in each battle. To overcome fear and psychol...
Why does western culture largely differ from eastern culture? For example, eastern philosophy and religion is Apophatic, while western religion and theology is Cataphatic. Japanese technology is built based on inductive craftsmanship, while western science and technology largely use deductive scientific methods and thinking, which is rooted in Gr...
Deductive and Inductive Methods in Science and Engineering. Traditional science and engineering uses the deductive scientific method which originated in Greek philosophy to separate human observers from nature (what is observed), while Eastern philosophy seeks the ultimate goal of human and nature interaction, known as Śūnyatā or Shuunyataa ( 空) ...
The concept of Kaizen did not exist in the west until James Womack et al introduced Lean Manufacturing in their pioneer classic book; The Machine that Changed the World (James Womack et al., 1991). In western thinking and tradition, there are always a goal and objectives to achieve. Once achieved, the mission is accomplished! There is no more wo...
Mahatma Gandhi stresses struggles as a necessary means to develop strengths. “Strength does not come from winning. Struggles develop your strengths...” (Mahatma Gandhi). A Zen master Kajiura Itsugai (梶浦逸外 老師) stresses struggles as the necessary first step to attain enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. When we are working on a project, it is common to...
"The son of a burglar saw his father growing older and thought, 'If he is unable to carry on his profession, who will be the breadwinner of the family, except myself? I must learn the trade.' He imitated his father and gained the approval of his father. One night the father took the son to a big house, broke through the fence, entered the house, ...
Buddhism and Heart Sutra: Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya. It can be translated as “The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom” (Takagami, 1968) Japanese culture was greatly influenced by Buddhism and the Analects of Confucius. Both came to Japan around the 6th century. Heart Sutra has played a significant influence on Japanese culture, people’s day-to-day living...
“The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.” Mother Teresa This is a wonderful example of developing our spiritual being using the inside-out principle (Covey, 1989). What is the purpose of life? This is one of those ultimate questions t...
When KS started the Fujio Cho legacy lecture during the second week of the True Lean certification course, it was a challenging new experience to correctly understand Fujio Cho’s vision and wisdom and effectively explain these to audiences. After the end of each lecture, attendees provided comments either directly or by survey. These comments rea...
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Fujio Cho. 1937–. President and chief executive officer, Toyota Motor Corporation. Nationality: Japanese. Born: 1937, in Tokyo, Japan. Education: Tokyo University, law degree, 1960. Career: Toyota Motor Corporation, 1960–1966, apprentice and training employee; 1966–1974, Production Control Division; 1974–1984, manager in Production ...
FORTUNE. Monday, January 24, 2005 By Clay Chandler. Fujio Cho When Fujio Cho arrived in Georgetown, (Illustration: Robert Ky., in 1986 to supervise production at Risko) Toyota's first American factory, he soon discovered it was easier to export cars than Toyota's ideas about how to build them. "There were cultural differences right from the ...
Dec 18, 2002 · With his feet planted firmly in the realities of the present-day world, Toyota Motor Corp. president Fujio Cho looks hopefully to the future as he guides the global automaker in its pursuit of continued growth-expansion that will come, he says, because of an aggressive environmental stance. By Katie Sosnowchik. By Emily Rabin. December 18, 2002.
May 24, 1999 · Of all the lessons that Toyota, and Fujio Cho, learned in Georgetown, those were the most important. Today, as Cho prepares to become president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corp. in June, those...
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