Richardson, Tracey / Escritor Richardson, Ernie / Escritor
The formula for Lean thinking in any genre of business ! Toyota veterans reveal how to build continuous improvement into your companyÂ’s DNA
Ever since Toyota introduced the revolutionary Toyota Production System (TPS), businesses have tried to replicate ToyotaÂ’s success. Few have succeeded over the long term. What businesses have failed to realize is that TPS calls for a fundamentally different way of thinking.
Now, at long last, here is a straightforward roadmap that make sense of the thinking culture behind ToyotaÂ’s phenomenal success. In its pages, authors Tracey and Ernie Richardson speak from the heart as Toyota employees who worked at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky when the company was first introducing its people-first approach in the U.S., and went on in the ensuing decades to teach Lean thinking around the world.
In The Toyota Engagement Equation 2nd Editiion, the authors take you through ToyotaÂ’s own journey of discovery in North America from the 1980's into the 2000's. This deep dive into the companyÂ’s game-changing work practices reveals how employees were developed, how they were taught to spot and define problems through standardization, how they were coached to solve them, and how they were encouraged to improve their thinking as they moved forward. The authors even share personal stories how lean thinking was embedded into their personal/daily life, some life changing.
And youÂ’ll see how Toyota developed this simple but profoundly effective approach into an overall management system-and how you can achieve amazing results in your company through the same system.
In the world of Lean design and implementation handbooks, The Toyota Engagement Equation stands out as a fresh, unique, and authoritative guide to building your business into the Toyota of your industry. As the authors see it, TPS has now evolved to the “Thinking People System!”
Ernie and Tracey hope you enjoy what they learned making cars and how it can translate to any process that creates an output, especially when people are involved. They are the most important asset to an organization, as a leader/influencer you must provide them "space to think, space to fail, and space to grow". All that creates "shared wisdom"! Has their Japanese trainers shared with them now -- GO THINKING!!
