About the book
Taiichi Ohno, credited as the inventor of the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing, pairs his own insights with an analysis of Toyota's attempts at lean production, giving a historical and philosophical account of just-in-time methods. It remains useful for anyone working to raise efficiency by cutting waste.
Grey Baker, co-founder of Dependabot, said it is possibly the only business book he has truly loved, describing it as the hard-won lessons Ohno learned on Toyota's factory floor rather than management guru talk.
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Grey Baker (Co-Founder/Dependabot)
Perhaps the only business book I’ve read and truly loved is Taiichi Ohno’s “The Toyota Production System”. It’s referenced a lot as the origin of the “Lean” movement, but it’s a much more enjoyable read than that makes it sound. Rather than management guru speak, it’s a wonderful book about the hard-won lessons Taiichi Ohno learned on the factory floor at Toyota. It won’t teach you what kanban means in modern management, but learning about Ohno’s desire to build an information nervous system for Toyota’s plants is so much more interesting!
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