{"product_id":"the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-story-of-lean-production-toyotas-secret-weapon-in-the-global-car-wars-that-is-now-revolutionizing-world-industr-womack-james-p-author-mar012007-paperback-9780743299794","title":"The Machine That Changed the World The Story of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Machine That Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAuthors 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eToday \u003ci\u003eThe Machine That Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e provides enduring and essential","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404267004247,"sku":"9780743299794","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780743299794.jpg?v=1730485924","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-story-of-lean-production-toyotas-secret-weapon-in-the-global-car-wars-that-is-now-revolutionizing-world-industr-womack-james-p-author-mar012007-paperback-9780743299794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}