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Thinking beyond lean : how multi-project management is transforming product development at Toyota and other companies
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ISBN: 0684849186 9780684849188 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Free Press

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""Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leading companies are moving beyond single-project management on which lean thinking is based. Drawing on a data base of 210 automobile products and detailed case studies from Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Renault, and Fiat, the authors demonstrate how product development teams can share engineers and key common components but retain separate designers to maintain distinctive product features. The result: multi-project management has brought these companies huge savings in development and production costs." "Cusumano and Nobeoka's findings will be required reading for every company that makes more than one product."--Jacket.

The evolution of a manufacturing system at Toyota
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ISBN: 1280761091 9786610761098 0195352637 9780195352634 0195123204 9780195123203 0195123204 0197702880 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical analyses, this book shows how Toyota Motor Corporation, one of the world's largest automobile companies, built distinctive capabilities in production, product development and supplier management.

Collaborative Advantage. Winning Through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks.
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ISBN: 0195130685 019535141X 1280472588 1602563829 9780195130683 9780195351415 0190284870 0197702678 Year: 2000 Publisher: Nex york : Oxford University Press,

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Demonstrates the power of collaborative advantage, arguing that, in the future, competitive advantage will increasingly be created by teams of companies, rather than by the single firm. Managers who do not recognize this development - regardless of their industry - are in danger of adopting the wrong strategies for their firms.

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