1st Edition

Inside the Mind of Toyota Management Principles for Enduring Growth

By Satoshi Hino Copyright 2005
352 Pages
by Productivity Press

352 Pages
by Productivity Press

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award Toyota's sustained growth attracts the attention of economists and industrialists around the world eager to learn the secrets of Toyota's lasting success. In Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth , Satoshi Hino examines the source of Toyota's strength: the fundamental thinking and management... Read more
Preface Chapter 1: Toyota's Genes and DNA
Chapter 2: The Toyota Paradigm
Chapter 3: Toyota's System of Management Functions
Chapter 4: Toyota's System of Production Functions
Chapter 5: Product Power and Brand Power
Chapter 6: Toyota Management in the 21st Century
Afterword

Biography

Satoshi Hino

Inside the Mind of Toyota is unique in that it analyzes Toyota's management system as a whole. The data Hino has collected is amazingly rich. For anyone interested in understanding Toyota's functions and capabilities as a total system, this book is a must read.
—Professor Fujimoto Takahiro, University of Tokyo

The most thorough explanation of the unique learning culture that Toyota has built, which is the real key to their phenomenal business success.
—George Koenigsaecker, President, Lean Investments, LLC

Readers of Hino's book will understand how Toyota continuously develops its management system to adapt to the changing competitive global environment. They will explore the "hidden" infrastructure -- the organizational DNA, corporate culture, and updated production and management systems -- that underlies Toyota's huge profits and continuous growth. This book provides invaluable insight on how corporate managers can develop their own competitive systems."
—Yasuhiro Monden, Ph.D., Professor-Emeritus, Tsukuba University

This is a book that I will read through again and again, using it as a reference for specific facts and in-depth analysis. It is a great companion to The Toyota Way. The messages of both books are the same: To understand Toyota's success you must delve deeply into the underlying management principles and culture. If you want facts, figures, charts, and graphs that give you a detailed analysis and factual accounting, this is a must-read.
—Professor Jeffrey K. Liker, University of Michigan; Shingo Prize Winning Author of The Toyota Way