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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684810352
ISBN-13: 9780684810355
Sep 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
350 pages
Illustrated
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This book could be the rallying cry for corporate leaders, who are turning to this dynamic management concept incorporating the best of the American, Japanese, and German enterprise models.
| Size | | Length: | 350 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
There's a missionary zeal to this book for corporate managers: it wants to convert companies the world over to the streamlined production process pioneered by Toyota after WWII. Womack and Jones chronicled Toyota's concept of lean production in The Machine That Changed the World, and embarked in 1990 on a tour of North America, Europe and Japan to persuade organizations, managers, employers and investors that mass production was out of date and should be chucked for something better. They formed a network of companies and individuals dedicated to lean production. Network members, whose stories form the basis of the book, gather annually to update procedures and refine theory. Showa Manufacturing, a Japanese maker of radiators and boilers, for instance, pulled itself out of an earnings slump by changing from mass-producing batches of standardized equipment to producing customized small lots. Heavily laden with details, this is for specialists who want to streamline. It makes few references to the larger, global economy. Author tour. (Sept.)
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