When "The Machine That Changed the World" was first published in
1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is
passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most
consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years.
This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean
production system that is the basis for its enduring success.
Now reissued with a new Foreword and Afterword, "Machine"
contrasts two fundamentally different business systems -- lean
versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans
work together to create value. Based on the largest and most
thorough study ever undertaken of any industry -- MIT's five-year,
fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program -- this book
describes the entire managerial system of lean production.
Nearly twenty years ago, Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a
comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They
exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production
model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean
production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it
would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating
activity from health care to retail to distribution.
Today "The Machine That Changed the World" provides enduring and
essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry
seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean
success.
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