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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Toyota Management Principles

The SystematicHR blog posts a series of articles about Toyota management principles based on the book “The Toyota Way” by Jeffrey Liker.

All are well worth reading.

The Toyota Way: Principle 1 - Base your management decisions on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of the short term financial goals.

The Toyota Way: Principle 2 - Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface.

The Toyota Way: Principle 3 - Use “pull” systems to avoid overproduction.

The Toyota Way: Principle 4 - Level out the workload.

The Toyota Way: Principle 5 - Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time.

The Toyota Way: Principle 6 - Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous process improvement and employee empowerment.

The Toyota Way: Principle 7 - Use visual control so no problems are unhidden.

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