現場

げんば · genba · JLPT N3 · noun

blot

🏗️ 現 actual/present + 場 place = the spot where it actually happens

Lean management borrowed it as gemba: Toyota managers are told to go to the gemba, the factory floor where the real work is done. It is used for crime scenes, building sites and on-the-ground reporting too.

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