Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha mentions The Goal, The Toyota Production System, and The Machine (uncertain) with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
after reading the book I'm much more understanding of the value that consultants bring to companies
if there's a problem all the workers in that chain are forced to go to the place where the defect or problem is and fix it before doing anything else.
was it the machine or the other one the Toyota production system
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- The strongest audience signal points to Managers and decision-makers in manufacturing or operations considering hiring consultants and software engineers and systems designers interested in applying lean manufacturing principles to software development.
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“based on your recommendation and Stephen Molino's recommendation I recently read the goal and after reading the book I'm much more understanding of the value that consultants bring to companies”
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“Reference to 'the Toyota production system' and 'the Toyota production system book' as a source describing tenants and examples of manufacturing inefficiencies.”
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“Speaker asks 'was it the machine or the other one the Toyota production system'—mentions 'the machine' as a possible book title but not fully certain.”
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