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In their 'Ideas for Good' campaign, Toyota essentially invited consumers to share their ideas on how to use one of five Toyota technologies (i.e., Total Human Model for Safety [T.H.U.M.B.S.], Solar Power Ventilation System, Hybrid Synergy Drive [HSD], Advanced Parking Assist, and Touch Tracer Display) in an all-new innovation, outside the automotive industry.

After accepting submissions for roughly four months, Toyota had a total of four-thousand entries to evaluate. Or should we say, the 'Ideas for Good' panel had 4,000 entries to evaluate. To be as fair as possible, Toyota created an independent…

What did Virginia Mason Medical Center CEO, Dr. Gary Kaplan, do when his facility started to lose money in 1998? He visited hospitals around the U.S... He talked with many of the smartest minds in the industry. And after two years... he decided there wasn't one institution in the entire medical system whose footsteps he felt were worth following. So, he turned to Japanese automaker, Toyota, for inspiration, instead.

Three years after starting his mission, Dr. Kaplan decided to focus on emulating Toyota's lean management style, which aims on eliminating waste in the production process. According to…