Obeya

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Obeya - Japanese for "large room" or "war room" - refers to a form of project management used in Asian companies (including Toyota) and is a component of the Lean Management.

During the product and process development, all individuals involved with the planning gather in a 'Great Room' to achieve fastest communication and shortest decision-making processes. This removes the barriers that have been created with the time, in a certain way Obeya can be understood as a team spirit empowerment tool at an administrative level.

Similar in concept to traditional “war rooms,” an Obeya will contain highly visual charts and graphs depicting program timing, milestones and progress to date and countermeasures to existing timing or technical problems.[1]

See also

Toyota Production System#Commonly used terminology

References

  1. ↑ "Capsule summaries of Key Lean Concepts B". lean.org. Retrieved 13 December 2013. 

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