Toyota Management System: Linking the Seven Key Functional Areas
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Here is the first comprehensive and systematic explanation of the management system that drives the world's leading automaker. The development of JIT production at Toyota and the company's achievement... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1563271397
ISBN13:9781563271397
Release Date:June 1997
Publisher:Productivity Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"
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A lucid how and why explanation of a revolutionary managerial approach.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Monden's book on the Toyota Management System emphasizes that the productivity of Toyota is not the result of any single factor like just-in-time manufacturing or total quality control, but a synergy of new thinking in many different areas: financial management; costing; functional organization; production management; product development management; international strategy; personnel management etc. He dwells longer on costing methods especially target costing and kaizen (processual improvement) costing methods and Toyota's use of IT to leverage and enable just-in-time purchasing, production and marketing. He also explains how Toyota's focus on generating internal capital rather than inviting external investment; having a flat organizational structure with workforce level responsibility; domain and functional organization; etc. contributed to Toyota's phenomenal growth. On the flip side, he leaves you wanting for more information by dropping interesting hints at some places and leaving the ensuing questions unanswered. But this does not dilute the merit of the book.
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