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Genchi Genbutsu
Leadership

Genchi Genbutsu

現地現物Japanese

Go and see for yourself: understand a situation by observing the actual place and the actual thing.

Examples

  1. 01An engineer inspects the scrapped parts in the red bin before analysing the scrap report.
  2. 02A buyer visits the supplier's plant to understand repeated late deliveries.
  3. 03A team leader times the real changeover instead of trusting the planned 30 minutes.

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