The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production--Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Revolutionizing World Industr
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When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Now reissued with a new Foreword and Afterword, Machine contrasts two fundamentally different business systems - lean versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans work together to create value. Based on the largest and most thorough study ever undertaken of any industry - MIT's five-year, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program - this book describes the entire managerial system of lean production.
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ISBN: 9780743299794
Published Date: March 13, 2007
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Page Count: 339
Size: 8.45" l x 5.49" w x 0.88" h
Category
Business & Economics