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Toyota Production System
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Engage with the Expected, Win with the Surprising, Snowmobile Synthesis from Unrelated Parts, Promote the Practitioners, Remove the Resisters
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Options mean more than new products and services. The creators of the Toyota Production System stress the importance of creating a company culture that constantly reduces costs, as a natural part of daily operations, wh…
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"Options mean more than new products and services. The creators of the Toyota Production System stress the importance of creating a company culture that constantly reduces costs, as a natural part of daily operations, while improving quality and shortening customer delivery span times. By keeping costs on a steady downward slope, they preserve pricing…"
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"Toyota Production System and the works of the creators of that system, particularly Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno,"
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"The main emphasis of the Toyota Production System, for example, is on constantly reducing the order-to-delivery span. This concept is not, however, a suitable focus for Toyota as a company, since it doesn’t say anything about what car to deliver in a shorter time span. In other words, if shorter order-to-deliver were all, Toyota would still be building better and better 1976 Camrys, faster and faster."
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Engage with the Expected, Win with the SurprisingSnowmobile Synthesis from Unrelated PartsPromote the Practitioners, Remove the ResistersShape the Market Before the Fight BeginsFingerspitzengefühl Through Deliberate ApprenticeshipImplicit Communication Beats Explicit by Orders of MagnitudeGarden Design Over Seed SelectionEinheit Outweighs Weapons CountOrientation Is the Schwerpunkt, Not SpeedTwenty-Eight Years to Install Toyota's SystemIf You Can Be Sand-Tabled, You Have No StrategyAsymmetric Fast Transients Beat Superior ForceSurvival on Your Own Terms as Strategic North StarClosed Systems Always Run DownReconnaissance Pull Over Central PlanningCost Reduction as Daily Operating DisciplineMission Contract Replaces MicromanagementFog Grows Inside the Slower OrganizationBe the Customer, LiterallySchwerpunkt Is a Focusing Concept, Not a GoalBad News Is the Only Useful Intelligence