The 5 Whys is a well-known problem-solving tool. Initially developed in 1970’s by Sakichi Toyoda to help improve the Toyota production, it is now taught in business schools across the country ...

Sakichi Toyoda’s embraced the “5 Whys technique.” Asking “why” for five successive times helps drill down and help get to the larger or deeper issue that even the one being asked has yet ...

5 Whys Examples: How to Best Implement the Practice Issues with Deliverables Problem Statement: Customers are unhappy because they are being shipped products that don’t meet their specifications.

When I lived in Japan during the Nineties, one concept that really struck me was the '5 Whys'. This model for introspection was developed by Sakichi Toyoda, a Japanese inventor who founded the ...

It turns out, it was actually a theory created by Sakichi Toyoda in the early 1900s called the 5 Whys. Toyoda’s original theory is great, but for the sake of progress, let’s assume by asking ...