| The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Ind Contributor(s): Womack, James P. (Author), Jones, Daniel T. (Author), Roos, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743299795 ISBN-13: 9780743299794 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Based on MITUs $5 million, five-year study on the future of the automobile, three directors of research deliver a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to lean production. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Automotive - General - Business & Economics | Industries - Automobile Industry - Business & Economics | Leadership |
| Dewey: 338.476 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors. When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size o |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Daniel T.: - Daniel T. Jones is the chairman and founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy (www.leanuk.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in the UK.Womack, James P.: - James P. Womack is the president and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute (www.lean.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in Brookline, Massachusetts. |