The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance(English, Paperback, Liker Jeffrey)
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A lean blueprint for creating long-term sustainability the Toyota way! The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, Liker teams up with former Toyota production engineer James Franz to explain the underlying thinking behind continuous improvement and why any company needs a disciplined approach to process improvement in every part of the organization. Liker and Franz outline the common mistakes in thinking that limit results, and they reveal how Toyota achieves its dual objectives of improving business performance and developing its people through following Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s teachings of Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA). Through detailed case examples in many industries, you’ll learn how to: Determine why your processes aren’t achieving anticipated results Build a sustainable lean process with a well-defined purpose Create a system that reveals problems Teach every leader and team member at every level the art of PDCA for process improvement About the Author Jeffrey K. Liker, author of the bestselling The Toyota Way, is professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan. James K. Franz has more than 24 years of manufacturing experience and learned “lean” as a Toyota production engineer in the United States and Japan.v
