Toyota Racing

Effective Teacher A great characteristic of an effective teacher is to have an authentic relationship with a student. In order to do this, the teacher would need to have a great sense of observation, make a connection with the student, get the student’s trust and encourages him or her to learn the subject. Teaching is a complex profession because they have a large amount of challenges. Some of those challenges are large size class, inadequate amount of testing for some students, lack of…

Urban designs, particularly those focused on children neighbourhoods can provide opportunities to facilitate or hinder Auckland being a child-friendlier city. These areas are crucial to the health and well-being of children (Witten, Kearns & Carroll, 2015). Negative aspects of the urban environment such as high traffic levels, spatial segregation and safety concerns as well as parental entrapment and the exclusion of children needs in urban planning decision-making represent barriers to Auckland…

formed a marketing agreement with even though they were partners with different companies; they were successful for the NASCAR brand and launched campaigns that were popular around the world (Ferrell & Hartline, 2013). NASCAR experienced problems as racing events went to a different location with each place establishing their own contract that leads to the races not broadcast by the same television station as the previous races. FOX and NBC contracted with NASCAR to televising their races at a…

co-workers. They would get-together between the work weeks and grill out, drink beer and watch the race. In “93” I became a part of this ritual although I still didn’t care very much about the race I did enjoy the good food and camaraderie. My position on racing would change the following year after I witnessed Jeff Gordon win his first track title in NASCAR’s premier series The Winston Cup (now known as the Sprint Cup) and found that witnessing a live NASCAR event can give you a new…

Before getting into the detail on the Lean principle here are insights about the history on lean in Toyota. Henry Ford was the first person to integrate the production process. He creates a flow production with standard work and moving conveyance at MI. Ford had a fabrication steps which he was utilizing on special purpose machines to fabricated and assemble those parts that goes in the vehicle. After the process they completed the finished product after going through subassembly and final…

1.0 Chapter one: Introduction “As global healthcare expenditure soars, and as systems are increasingly required to deliver better care to more people using less resource, the challenge to explore the promises of lean thinking is compelling” (Young and McClean, 2009 p.309). In the United Kingdom (UK) for instance there was a serious rise in public healthcare spending from 3% in 1960 to 7.8% in 2010 (Pettinger, 2015). Although healthcare spending has falling as percentage of a GDP in the UK…

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is about two researchers, Michael Braungart and William McDonough, who begin a journey on finding new ways to build anything in daily life. They want to encourage designers to rethink on how they currently build their products. For example, they worked on building an aluminum soda can that has a seed in it so if someone throws it out the window, something can grow. They worked on soda cans because once you paint a label on the soda can, there is…

Seabiscuit reminds me of the African proverb “smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” While the main characters–Red Pollard, Seabiscuit, Tom Smith, and Charles Howard–are known for their incredible gains, their losses cannot be forgotten. With each of casts’ misfortunes came their American dreams, even if they were not aware that they would need each other to achieve it. This dream would be lead by Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit was undersized, fairly gentle, and lethargic compared to other horses.…

Electric cars have been around since the 1830’s, but saw a major decline during the 1900’s when the Model T was introduced and mass produced killing any hope for electric cars until now[]. As we all know electric vehicles run off batteries becoming more environmental friendly. Figure A shows a general outline of what an Electric vehicle consists of. Electric motors get there power from a controller, while the controller gets its power from rechargeable batteries. Batteries come in many different…

NASCAR executives, realizes that they must do more in order to spread awareness of the brand. Therefore, by launching the regional racing series NASCAR will promote rivalries, increase fan attendance, and increase sponsor participation. Furthermore, these advantages are part of the sustainability objectives highlighted above. This expansion, will allow the organization to establish a strong branding strategy that will resonate across the regions. The first initiative is infiltrating local media…