Chapter 5 Management based on a vision of the ideal—true north

DOI: 10.4324/9781003348627-8

In Section 2, we have technically demonstrated how jidoka and Just-in-Time displayed in the house of TPS achieve the first of the three major innovations:

  • Financial congruency between profit and cash flow

But Toyota didn’t just achieve this fate technically. It took a different approach to traditional management

In Section 3, we will turn to the second of three of Toyota’s major innovations:

  • The managerial capability to reconcile the creative nature of human beings as thinkers and innovators with the mundane requirements of industrial work, which by nature is rule-bound and repetitive

Toyota intentionally reconciles the creative nature of people ...

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