The Birth of Lean
Subtitle: Conversations with Taiichi Ohno, Eiji Toyoda, and other figures who shaped Toyota management
By: Koichi Shimokawa and Takahiro Fujimoto, Editors ; Translated by Brian Miller with John Shook
Publisher: The Lean Enterprise Institute; Lean Enterprise Institute, Incorporated
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachussetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781934109229
Subjects: Management
Notes: "Version 1.0, March 2009"--T.p.

"Foreword by Jim Womack"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1:  How it all began; title: Chapter 2:  What I learned from Taiichi Ohno; title: Chapter 3:  Putting a pull system in place at Toyota; title: Chapter 4:  The evolution of buffering at Toyota; title: Chapter 5: Total quality control and the toyota production system; title: Chapter 6:  The guiding management perspective.