The Toyota Way
The Toyota Way is an essential guide to explaining Toyota’s unique approach to Lean management – the 14 principles that drive Toyota’s quality and efficiency-obsessed culture.
Dr. Liker is a nationally recognized authority on lean manufacturing methods and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is an expert on U.S. and Japanese differences in manufacturing and supply chain management, and co-founded the Japan Technology Management Program at UM.
Dr. Liker has authored or co-authored over 70 articles and book chapters and eight books. He is author of the best-selling The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer (McGraw Hill, 2004), which speaks to the underlying philosophy and principles that drive Toyota’s quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. He completed The Toyota Way Field Book (McGraw-Hill) with David Meier in 2006 as a practical companion guide to the original text that details how companies can learn from the Toyota Way principles.
He recently co-authored The Toyota Product Development System with James Morgan (Productivity Press) that won the 2007 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research. This is the first book to examine in detail the product development side of Toyota.
Dr. Liker is also the Editor of Becoming Lean: Experiences of U.S. Manufacturers (Productivity Press, 1997), winner of the 1998 Shingo prize (for excellence in manufacturing research). He has also won Shingo prizes for his research in 1995, 1996, and 1997. He is active as a keynote speaker, speaker for executive retreats, Lean consultant, and co-founder of Optiprise, Inc.
Dr. Liker is currently working on a series of books focused on each of the 4Ps. The first book, co-authored with David Meier, is Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way (McGraw-Hill, 2007) is now available for purchase (released in May of 2007). He continues to study and write books about Toyota and practice as a keynote speaker and consultant through Optiprise.
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