The Toyota Way

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

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-09-2009; Driven to perform....and excel; After Allied Forces decimated the Japanese geography, spirit and psyche with atomic weapons in World War II - nobody thought anything would rise from the ashes of the "Country of the Rising Sun." However, within a single generation, that...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-04-2009; Great book!!!; This is a great book. I have read "Lean Thinking" and "The Machine that Changed the World" and those are very good books, but "The Toyota Way" definitely does a great job explaining the Toyota Way principles and their applications. This...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-06-2009; Value for the operations oriented individual; For any individual working in an operations oriented field this book can be a valuable tool for learning more about the Toyota Way and Lean manufacturing.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-07-2008; Book Purchase; Book seller presented accurate information regarding the condition and quality of the book. Book receipt time was excellent and well within the timeframe given to the purchaser. Thanks for the great service.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-09-2009; Driven to perform....and excel; After Allied Forces decimated the Japanese geography, spirit and psyche with atomic weapons in World War II - nobody thought anything would rise from the ashes of the "Country of the Rising Sun." However, within a single generation, that...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-30-2005; A Start; Liker's "The Toyota Way" provides a good introduction for someone not familiar with "lean production" or "The Toyota Production System (TPS)." On the other hand, I prefer the materials written by Tachii Ohno and Shigeo Shingo (Toyota...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-14-2006; THE TOYOTA WAY CD REVIEW; On disk # 2 some of the tracks "skip" when played and are inaubible. Have not yet played all of the disks, but was disappointed to find this lack of quality - especially when the book topic stresses the importance of quality.; read full review | report as inappropriate