The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:

• Eliminating wasted time and resources
• Building quality into workplace systems
• Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
• Producing in small quantities
• Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector

• The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
• The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
• The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
• The Toyota Way Fieldbook
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
• Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
• The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits
• Creating a Lean Culture
• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition
• The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development