Book description
Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Extreme Toyota: An Organization Powered by Creative Contradictions
- Six Opposing Forces That Drive the Company's Expansion—and Keep It from Breaking Apart
- The Force of Impossible Goals
- Eagerness to Experiment
-
Local Customization
- The Underdog Even at Home
- Customizing the IMV in Asia
- The Challenges and Benefits of Local Customization
- Customizing the Yaris for Europe
- Customizing the Scion for the United States Youth Segment
- Customizing the Tundra for the United States
- Disseminating Local Best Practices throughout the World
- Conclusion
- The Founders' Philosophies
- Toyota's Nerve System—A Human Version of the World Wide Web
- Up-and-In Human Resource Management
- Toyota's Resource Base
- A Company Always in Danger
- What Your Organization Can Learn from Toyota: Ten Powerful Contradictions
- Selected Auto Industry Figures and Comparisons
- Literature Review
- Selected English Book Publications on Toyota (1980 to 2007)
- Selected English Articles on Toyota (1980 to 2007)
- NOTES
Product information
- Title: Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2008
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470267622
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