The Toyota way : 14 management principles from the worlds greatest manufacturer
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How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry
In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.
Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:
* Eliminating wasted time and resources
* Building quality into workplace systems
* Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
* Producing in small quantities
* Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector
Professor Jeffrey Liker has been studying Toyota for twenty years, and was given unprecedented access to Toyota executives, employees and factories, both in Japan and the United States, for this landmark book. The Toyota Way reveals the 14 foundational management principles behind the automaker's world-famous system of "Lean Production". You will learn how Toyota creates an ideal environment for implementing Lean techniques and tools by :
* fostering an atmosphere of continous improvement and learning
* statisfying customers (and eliminating waste at the same time)
* getting quality right the first time
* grooming leaders from within rather than recruiting them from the outside
* teaching all emloyees to become problem solvers
* growing together with suppliers and partners for mutual benefit
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xxii, 330p.: ill.; 24cm.
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