The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
- 4h 36m 34s
- Jeffrey K. Liker
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2005
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.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1: The Toyota Way: Using Operational Excellence as a Strategic Weapon
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Chapter 2: How Toyota Became the World's Best Manufacturer: The Story of the Toyoda Family and the Toyota Production System
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Chapter 3: The Heart of the Toyota Production System: Eliminating Waste
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Chapter 4: Principle 1: Base Your Management Decisions on a Long-Term Philosophy, Even at the Expense of Short-Term Financial Goals
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Chapter 5: Principle 2: Create Continuous Process Flow to Bring Problems to the Surface
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Chapter 6: Principle 3: Use “Pull” Systems to Avoid Overproduction
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Chapter 7: Principle 4: Level Out the Workload (Heijunka)
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Chapter 8: Principle 5: Build a Culture of Stopping to Fix Problems, to Get Quality Right the First Time
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Chapter 9: Principle 6: Standardized Tasks Are the Foundation for Continuous Improvement and Employee Empowerment
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Chapter 10: Principle 7: Use Visual Control So No Problems Are Hidden
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Chapter 11: Principle 8: Use Only Reliable, Thoroughly Tested Technology That Serves Your People and Processes
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Chapter 12: Principle 9: Grow Leaders Who Thoroughly Understand the Work, Live the Philosophy, and Teach It to Others
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Chapter 13: Principle 10: Develop Exceptional People and Teams Who Follow Your Company's Philosophy
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Chapter 14: Principle 11: Respect Your Extended Network of Partners and Suppliers by Challenging Them and Helping Them Improve
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Chapter 15: Principle 12: Go and See for Yourself to Thoroughly Understand the Situation (Genchi Genbutsu)
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Chapter 16: Principle 13: Make Decisions Slowly by Consensus, Thoroughly Considering All Options; Implement Rapidly
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Chapter 17: Principle 14: Become a Learning Organization Through Relentless Reflection (Hansei) and Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
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Chapter 18: Using the Toyota Way to Transform Technical and Service Organizations
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Chapter 19: Build Your Own Lean Learning Enterprise, Borrowing from the Toyota Way
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