Author: 門倉 昭博
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Reflections on Organizational Foundations in Tarragona / The People Behind the Cheers for Human Towers
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On October 3, 2026, I attended a human tower competition in Tarragona. Eighteen teams took part in the Saturday session of the 30th Concurs de Castells, held once every two years. These towers, known as castells, are a Catalan tradition inscribed on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage in 2010. The venue was Tarraco Arena,…
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Revisiting Taiichi Ohno Today / Why Toyota Production System, written half a century ago, still feels new in the age of AI
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Recently, I had an opportunity to speak with someone who is working at Toyota. During our conversation, Taiichi Ohno’s name came up for the first time in quite a while. This person’s background was not in production engineering but in public relation. Yet when the conversation turned to a challenge on a manufacturing floor, he began…
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Respect and Hope
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In management and organizational transformation, there are two words I continue to value deeply: Respect and Hope. During my time in Barcelona, I was given the responsibility of transforming a recently acquired pharmaceutical API manufacturing site from an internal production facility for its former parent company into a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). The…