Toyota: Striving for Perfection

Author: Gu Chongqing
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Toyota is not just an automobile company, but also represents a realm of wisdom. —USA Today
What we do is actually focus on the operations from receiving customer orders to collecting payments from customers, eliminating waste that does not create value to shorten the operation time. —One of the founders of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno
Toyota — this automobile empire originating from the small town of Takumi-cho, Japan, became a Japanese company with net profits exceeding $10 billion in 2004, also becoming the world's second-largest automobile manufacturer after General Motors. From Toyoda Kiichiro to Fujio Cho, Toyota has not only produced numerous famous cars but also made people remember its classic management philosophy — from "automation with the human element" to the globally renowned "Toyota Quality," "Kaizen production methods," from "Kanban production" to the "Toyota Production System," all reflecting Toyota Motor's unique corporate culture and management wisdom. This book vividly interprets the lubricant of the engine that drives the world — Toyota culture — through the authentic corporate culture concepts of Toyota and 26 classic corporate culture stories.