'This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business' - Gary Convis, Managing Office of Toyota. Fewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, ...
Your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota's success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability in the international bestseller "The Toyota Way". Now, he and Toyota veteran David Meier take those lessons a step further with "The Toyota Way Fieldbook". You'll receive the ...
Toyota credits its status as a global powerhouse to its people. Now two of the leading authorities on the company give you the methods for developing an exceptional workforce the Toyota way. Toyota has changed the economic and business landscape with its model for organizational excellence. Jeffrey K. Liker's international bestseller, "The Toyota ...
To become the Toyota of your industry, it's vital to emulate not only the company's process, but to learn from its company-wide culture. Toyota has changed the economic and business landscape, and in "The Toyota Way", Jeffrey K. Liker explained that this success was the result of consistently applying four key management principles for ...
How can you apply value stream mapping and lean concepts to the more complex environment created by mixed model (high variety) manufacturing operations? Creating Mixed Model Value Streams helps you to address the challenges of high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, including: Coordinating products and services as they intertwine between multiple ...
This title is the winner Of The 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing Research! The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper ...
The editors provide a range of empirical studies on how Japanese and US firms manage critical aspects of technology development and deployment. Almost all of the research has not been previously published.
Most other books on lean management focus on the technical methods and offer a picture of what a lean system should look like. Some provide snapshots of before and after. this is the first book to provide technical descriptions of successful solutions and performance improvements. It is the first book to include powerful first-hand accounts of the ...
Over the last two decades, Japanese firms have challenged U.S. dominance in many manufacturing industries. This challenge has increasingly come in the form of transplant operations, and recognition has spread that their success owes a great deal to superior manufacturing management. Despite the ups and downs of the business cycle in Japan, there ...
Subtitled Integrating Product Development Across Organizations, this book provides all the tools needed to achieve systems integration across organizational boundaries. Proven, innovative techniques are clearly explained including the use of socio-technical systems integration. Focus is on the methodology of the work processes, people systems, and ...
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