What is the true source of a firm's long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing? Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical analyses, this book shows how Toyota Motor Corporation, one of the world's largest automobile companies, built distinctive capabilities in production, product development, and supplier management. Fujimoto asserts that it is Toyota's evolutionary learning capability that gives the company its advantage and demonstrates how this learning is put to use in daily work.

The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota

Business & Money

Fujimoto, Takahiro

Biography & History

Oxford University Press

New products have been a source of fascination and excitement since the beginning of the age of mass production. Today, superiority in product development--moving new product concepts from R&amp;D to design and engineering to production and into the marketplace with speed and efficiency--is the hallmark of many of the world's most successful companies and a key source of competitive advantage.

Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry

Clark, Kim B.

Industries

Harvard Business Review Press

This Element applies capability-architecture-performance (CAP) approach of industrial analysis to the evolution of the automobile industry and the strategies of its leading manufacturing firms between the late 19th century and the early 21st century. It regards a manufacturing site ('genba,' such as factory, development facility, etc.) and a product (and other economic artifacts, such as processes) as the two basic units of analysis. Both an industry and a firm can be seen as a collection of sites, as well as a collection of products. The CAP framework predicts that dynamic fits between the sites' organizational capabilities and the product/process architectures lead to sustainable competitive performance. Such key concepts as flows of value-carrying design information, productive/market/profit performance, design-based comparative advantage, integral/modular architectures, multi-skilling, coordinative capability-building, evolutionary capabilities, industry lifecycle, and architectural evolution are discussed in a systematic and dynamic way.

Evolution of the Automobile Industry (Elements in Business Strategy)

Cambridge University Press

Competing to be really, really good: the behind-the-scenes drama of capability-building competition in the automobile industry

Competing to Be Really, Really Good: The Behind-the-scenes Drama of Capability-building Competition in the Automobile Industry

International House of Japan

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The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota

Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry

Evolution of the Automobile Industry (Elements in Business Strategy)

Competing to Be Really, Really Good: The Behind-the-scenes Drama of Capability-building Competition in the Automobile Industry