Extreme Toyota
Subtitle: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
Contributors: with John Kyle Dorton; Susan J. Bigelow, Manuscript Editor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; John Wiley & Sons
Published: June 20, 2008
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780470267622
First sentence: To a casual observer, Toyota's ascent in the global auto industry reads like a rags-to-riches story.
Description: By almost any measure, Toyota is a model of extreme performance among the world's best manufacturers. The company is hugely profitable, known for strong engineering, durability, and reliability, and is on track to replace GM as the world's largest automaker. This book explains what makes Toyota great and what you and your business can learn from its success.
Table of contents: title: Extreme Toyota: An Organization Powered by Creative Contradictions; title: Six Opposing Forces That Drive the Company's Expansion-and Keep it from Breaking Apart; title: The Force of Impossible Goals; title: Eagerness to Experiment; title: Local Customization; title: The Founder's Philosophies; title: Toyota's Nerve System-A Human Version of the World Wide Web; title: Up-and-In Human Resource Management; title: Toyota's Resource Base; title: A Company Always in Danger; title: What Your Organization Can learn from Toyota: Ten Powerful Contradictions; title: Appendix A: Selected Auto Inducstry Figures and Comparisons; title: Appendix B: Literature Review; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index