Toyota won't use powerpoint.

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I think this is a good idea, multifunctional mouse pad. I need more USB ports actually.

Wired has an article about Hiroyuki Nishimura, he started 2ch. The title is good: "Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet"

Do you know "Toyota Production System"? We say "Toyota shiki". Toyota is well known for streamlining operations. The goals of the TPS are to design out overburden (muri) and inconsistency (mura), and eliminate waste (muda). I heard the number of steps that staff walk between the two points in the factory was designed. By the way, Toyota is said to have started "no Powerpoint". This is an article about it (translation and original). Because of appreciating yen, higher raw materials and slackness in the U.S market, profit is down, they had negative earnings news this May and they started to reduce costs now. Then we have this news. The article said Toyota won't use presentations with Powerpoint in order to save paper, printer ink and time by too much interpretation. Ha ha ha, it's so funny, a few years ago, the Takahashi method became a topic, and a book about the method has sold well. The Takahashi method was a presentation way with BIG letters in Powerpoint. Here is a sample on the Takahashi method official site. Look at this: Title -> "let me introduce" -> "my name is" -> "Takahashi"... like that. In that way, that presentation had 243 pages. I am not kidding. It is true, actually I had seen such a presentation at work from someone. Talking about myself, I made over 30-page presentations before. I thought I could tell it in two pages and I hated such a long one but my boss said it was necessary for NTT docomo. I appreciate Toyota's way and I hate Powerpoint too. Anyway, I checked the MS Powerpoint page and the Japanese template was updated.

 

Comments

[mari]

ah I understand, I like to make everything excel too and also hate powerpoint. Thanks

[bshock]

I certainly sympathize with a dislike of PowerPoint. It seems as though PowerPoint is a way of taking up time during a meeting without saying anything important. In fact, many people I work with say that the more pages a PowerPoint presentation has, the more worthless it is.

[Neil Duckett]

hmmmmm Toyota hey. I do a lot of work for another Japanese OEM (i work 100% full time on site at ****** as part of contract for another Doitsu company) and they LOVE powerpoint ... and Excel .... everything is Excel ..... i mean EVERYTHING Excel. Japanese company is very difficult to work for in my opinion.