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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Operations Organizational culture' Townes, and Henry L.