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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World's Greatest Manufacturer

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What Can Your Business Learn From Toyota?

  • Double or triple the speed of any business process
  • Build quality into workplace systems
  • Eliminate the huge costs of hidden waste
  • Turn every employee into a quality control inspector

With a market capitalization greater than the value of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler combined, Toyota is also, (by far), the world’s most profitable automaker. Toyota’s well-known “secret weapon” is Lean production—the revolutionary approach to business processes that it invented in the 1950s and has spend decades perfecting. Less well known are the management principles that underlie Lean production, Lean product development, and all of Toyota’s business and service processes. Today businesses around the world are attempting to implement Toyota’s radical system for speeding up processes, reducing waste, and improving quality. But are they getting beneath the surface of Lean tools and techniques to the real foundation of Toyota’s success?

The Toyota Way, explains Toyota’s unique approach to Lean management—the 14 principles that drive Toyota’s quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. You’ll gain valuable insights that can be applied to any organization and any business process, whether in services or manufacturing. You’ll discover how the right combination of long-term philosophy, processes, people, and problem solving can transform your organization into a Lean, learning enterprise—the Toyota Way.

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