Your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota’s success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles Toyota’s worldwide reputation for quality and reliability in the international bestseller “The Toyota Way”. Now, he and Toyota veteran David Meier take those lessons a step further with “The Toyota Way Fieldbook”. You’ll receive the diagnostic tools, worksheets, and exercises – many adapted from Toyota originals – so you can craft the most effective approach for your organization. Learn how to develop a long-term philosophy of cost reduction, build a culture that stops to fix problems quickly, develop leaders that live your system, and transform your company into a true lean learning organization that continuously improves, meets the needs of its customers, and positions itself for long-term success.Most importantly, you’ll understand the thinking behind lean tools and approaches so you can implement Toyota’s 4P Model for success in your organization: Philosophy – the company is a vehicle for adding value to customers, society, the community, and its associates; Process – when leaders follow the right process they get the right results, including long-term cost-reduction and quality improvement; People and Partners – add value to an organization by challenging its people and partners to grow and become more skilled and confident; and, Problem solving – continuously solve root problems to drive organizational learning.
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3 replies on “The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota’s 4Ps”
Essential for understanding the philosophy of lean I’ll start with the bottom line: this is essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand what “lean” is about – but don’t expect detail on the tools of lean: it’s not really a fieldbook in that sense.
Highly recommended to understand lean principles. There are some books that are special. They make a real impact in your reflection. This is one! Well organized in the sequence to go through the 4 principles of Toyota Way. Easy to read. Facilitates comprehension and reflection on each lesson learned.The authors have done an outstanding job to help general public, and specially business leaders and people working on the continuous improvement spirit, to learn not focusing on the tools – you always have guides and other materials to learn about each tool – but focusing on the SYSTEMIC vision of the lean paradigm.
Lean Principles and Philosophy This books explores the 12 philosophies of lean management as seen in the Toyota Production System. It is not a “how to” book – there are no methodologies for lean tools; rather the book explores lean principles and concepts in considerable detail (400 + pages) and how they can be applied in practice. To my mind the best elements of the book are the sections on problem solving and implementing lean. As a whole the book suffers from a dense style that makes it heavy going at times. The book also suffers from some gaps – insufficient space is given to how to achieve “flow” in an organisation with very variable demand. In addition, the book mentions the use of temporary staff to manage demand peaks but says nothing about how these people are recruited, trained, managed and involved in lean. The feeling is left that these are the “cannon fodder” of lean.Overall this is probably essential reading for anyone involved in lean – but be ready for heavy going !.