The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $16.45 You Save: $13.55 (45%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $6.69 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Book Review: Emphasizing the importance of Principles
Summary: 5 Stars
Liker's book is no simple summary of the practices in Toyota's lean toolkit. In fact, he spends a considerable amount of time analyzing the problems U.S. lean sites have encountered when adopting lean tools without fully permeating the principles and philosophies throughout the organization's culture. The examples he cites underline this important deficiency and are worth the price of the book alone.
The chapters on the development of the Lexus and Prius are particularly compelling. Toyota's holistic development approach offers all industries a fine example of how product development should be done.
Book Review: Excellent Book On The Toyota Way And Lean Manufacturing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Jeffrey Liker clearly knows what he writes about. The book is the result of more than a decade of study, on site visits and interviews with several Toyota key people. It describes 14 toyota principles, which go through the Toyota Philosophy, the Toyota Production System, the relationship with employeees, customers, suppliers and partners, and a focus on continuous improvement. No wonder Toyota is one of world top most admired companies!
Very interesting is also the Japanese management principles and mindset - slow but determined, patient, self-reflection, learning by actuall observation and doing, consensus seeking, and managing for the long term.
By coincidence, yesterday (6/Sep/2007) the news came up that Jim Press (American Toyota President)was hired by Chrysler - I can imagine why.
Book Review: Excellent Overview of Toyota Principles
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book to be very useful in describing the overall Toyota philosophy as well as the principles of Lean Manufacturing. If you desire to build a business based on continuous process improvement, superior customer value and long-term thinking, this book provides an excellent model for building your own corporate culture along a proven Toyota methodology. I ordered additional copies for all of our Sr Mgmt...excellent book...highly recommended.Book Review: Excellent book!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my clients saw this book in an airport stand and asked me if it was worth reading. I read the book out of mere curiosity and was totally engrossed. It is well-organized, simple, and clear. While not all companies can implement the Toyota Production System, there are certainly great ideas in this book that can be implemented by any company.Book Review: Excellent for those who are open to change
Summary: 5 Stars
I've bought this book for a course of my MBA and I really liked it. It is very useful, interesting and you can really get too much practical information that will make you realize about the typical management we are use to in America vs. the exquisite oriental management. After this, you will love Toyota and you will want to implement the Toyota Way even in your home!!!.
It's awesome!!