Toyota

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The origin of lean production; most of the literature is management-method writing rather than corporate narrative.

6 books

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  1. The Machine That Changed the WorldJames P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos, 1990
  2. The Toyota WayJeffrey K. Liker, 2004
  3. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale ProductionTaiichi Ohno, 1988

Books 6

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale
T1 Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
Taiichi Ohno · 1988 · Insider account: the system's architect explains it himself.
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The Machine That Changed the World
T1 The Machine That Changed the World
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos · 1990 · MIT study that named lean production and made Toyota the benchmark.
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The Toyota Way
T2 The Toyota Way
Jeffrey K. Liker · 2004 · The most widely used codification of Toyota's management principles.
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Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
T3 Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
Taiichi Ohno · 1988 · Insider account: Ohno's shorter, blunter shop-floor essays.
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Toyota Under Fire
T3 Toyota Under Fire
Jeffrey K. Liker, Timothy N. Ogden · 2011 · The recall crisis and tsunami tested against the lean model.
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Extreme Toyota
T4 Extreme Toyota
Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi · 2008 · Argues Toyota runs on deliberate internal contradictions.
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