Taiichi Ohno

The diversification of customer needs results in the competition more and more intense. Thus, both competitive advantage and core competency are the effective weapons to come after competitors in a globalized market. A lot of well-known companies rely on a resource-based strategy to develop through technologic assets and intellectual properties like Google, IBM, and Apple. However, such strategy is not good enough to deal with challenges through remaining competitive strategy in changing business

CS6316 HOMEWORK #2 Critique of Victor Skowronski’s “Do Agile Methods Marginalize Problem Solvers?” Vishal Venkat Raman SUMMARY In an agile world, communication serves as one of the most important tool. An excellent programmer cannot perform well in an Agile World if he/she fails to communicate. If they are unable to work as a team player, then the agile strategy would not succeed. They would not participate in discussions and this inability to communicate would be seen as a lack of ability and they

To what extent can improvements in productive flow and product quality lead to an increase in sales and profit? Use examples to critically examine the links. Sales and Profit are both critical goals in a company. If managers don’t achieve these goals, the company is gradually going to consume its capital and inevitably fail. That’s why they put so many attention on them and why they are always searching for new methods to increase them. In fact, there are many ways that can help making sales

Table of Contents” Name of the Points Page Number Executive Summary Chapter-01 Introduction: 1.1 Origin of the Study 1.2 Objective of the Study 1.3 Methodology of the Study 1.4 Limitation of the Study 01-02 Chapter-02 About Strategic Management & Functional level strategy 03 Chapter-03 Topic of the Term Paper: Functional Level Strategy of Toyota Corporation 04-08 Chapter-04 Problems & Solutions 09 Chapter-05 Findings & Analysis 10-11 Chapter-06 Conclusion 12 References I Appendix

IMPLEMENTING LEAN SIX SIGMA FOR PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ILI MARINI BT ZAINAL ABIDIN 1. ABSTRACT Lean Six Sigma approach is recognized widely and has been implemented predominately in manufacturing rather than other industries. To illustrate the point, this paper draws attention to the adoption of Lean Six Sigma in various industries with a case study. The combination of Lean tools and Six Sigma methodology is used to improve the process and quality by eliminating the variations and

In this paper, we tried to present an overview on the Just In Time practices and how it originated and what it involves from goals and objectives; that would make organizations all over the world apply the concept while aiming at enhancing it's production, minimizing costs and thus generating more revenues. We also tackled Toyota- Car Manufacturing Company as a case study for being one of the very first manufacturers who gave up old traditional manufacturing practices and started implementing JIT

General Motors with Lean Manufacturing An Introduction of GM Global Manufacturing System Operations Management Team Project Contributed by We Make A+ (sort by number): 유형근 - 2009 050 444 오슬기 - 2010 049 712 손무화 - 2010 054 149 주시건 - 2010 059 605 김학운 - 9125 620 120 Division of Business Administration, Hanyang Univ. ERICA Ansan, December 2012 Contents Part 1.Overview of General Motors 2 1.1 Why General Motors? 2 1.2 Introduction of General Motors 3 1.3 Basic Information 3 1.4 History of GM 4

VMPS Facts What is the Virginia Mason Production System? The Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS) is a management method that seeks to continually improve how work is done so there are zero defects in the final product. Using this method, Virginia Mason (VM) identifies and eliminates waste and inefficiency in the many processes that are part of the health care experience, making it possible for VM staff to deliver the highest quality and safest patient care. By streamlining repetitive and low-touch

Final Project of Competitive Advantage and Operations Strategy Zijing Chen 661027591 December 3, 2015 Abstract Lean is a systematic method to root out of Muda (waste), and thus increase efficiencies within a manufacturing system. During the production, values are added to the process. For example, when assembling a component, the final product is the value a customer is willing to pay for it. Lean is an important manufacturing philosophy that leads to improvement of processes. In class, there were

that is also implemented with the objective of increasing profit. Lean thinking originated in Japan, and is best exemplified by the Toyota Production System. Constraints placed on the Japanese manufacturing industry after the second world war lead Taiichi Ohno of Toyota to pioneer a new type of production system that was so different, and so much better, than mass production, as to warrant a new type manufacturing. Lean production is a method of organizing production using half the effort, space, inventory