Extreme Toyota : radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osono, Emi, Author.

Contributor:

Shimizu, Norihiko, Contributor.

Takeuchi, Hirotaka, Contributor.

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki Kaisha--Management.

Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki Kaisha.

Automobile industry and trade--Management--Japan.

Automobile industry and trade.

Total quality management.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 306 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] John Wiley & Sons 2008

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.

Contents:

Extreme Toyota: an organization powered by creative contradictions

Six opposing forces that drive the company's expansion

and keep it from breaking apart

The force of impossible goals

Eagerness to experiment

Local customization

The founder's philosophies

Toyota's nerve system

a human version of the world Wide Web

Up-and-in human resource management

Toyota's resource base

A company always in danger

What your organization can learn from Toyota: ten powerful contradictions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.

Literature review (p. 257-262).

ISBN:

9780470378496

0470378492

OCLC:

402405622