altered environment more apparent than in the Japanese automobile and semiconductor industries and no firm was more successful, admired and emulated than Toyota Motor Corporation. Indicative of these changes is a Fortune magazine article, published several years ago, which provided a popular assessment of the successes of Toyota. It reported that Toyota was named the most admired motor vehicle manufacturer in the world in 1997, 1998 and 1999 as well as being ranked 11th among the world’s most admired
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Strengths: Toyota’s strengths lie in the fact that their assembly line is time efficient and the use of in time inventory control. Toyota does not have unwanted costs, like for example GM’s “legacy cost” which otherwise would decrease its profits and future investments. Toyota also achieves economies of scale which plays a big role in large industries especially when the average cost increases with the increase of production. Just in time production and the concept of building quality directly into
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Toyota Motor Corporation Historique de l’entreprise Pour retracer l’histoire de Toyota, il faut remonter jusqu’à la fin du 19e siècle, au Japon. C’est à ce moment que Sakichi Toyoda a révolutionné l’industrie du textile japonaise en inventant le premier métier à tisser électrique. Il a, par la suite, fondé la Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Company, compagnie œuvrant dans l’industrie du textile. Par contre, ce n’est qu’en 1924 qu’il parviendra à fabriquer, avec l’aide de son fils Kiichiro, ayant lui
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Internationalization at Toyota: A Case Study Examining the internationalization of the Toyota Motor Corporation, this essay argues that the firm’s strategy of localism, pertaining to both design and production, has lain at the core of the firm’s international successes. In this regard, it notes that Toyota learned from early failures, pertaining to export vehicles, and adjusted its strategy in longitude so as to make the most of export opportunities across the international economy. Noting that
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Basic history of NUMMI (the GM and Toyota joint venture) 2 Basic responsibilities for each one of the partners (“one is in charge of production, the other is in charge of marketing”, etc. etc.) 3 Some waste reduction features of the Toyota Production System (error proofing, material handling, “pull” production practice, etc.) and their relationship to the environment 4 An assessment of the level of capital investment (automation) used in the Toyota Production System and its relevance
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Group members: • Tran Vu Hoang Long • Tran Nam Quoc • Nguyen Cong Hoang • Nguyen Pham Duy Trung Studied objects: • Vietnam’s automotive industry • Toyota Motor Vietnam [GROUP MEMBERS:
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Toyota Motors Case Study Introduction Toyota Motor Corporation is one of the world largest automobile manufacturing. They have manufacturing plant throughout the world. Toyota has thirteen manufacturing plants in North American alone. One of its largest plants is here in the Georgetown, Kentucky where they produce the new Camry. Toyota is poised to overtake General Motors and become the largest car manufacturer in the world. Much of this success can be attributed to the renowned Toyota Production
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Columbia Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage AUTOMOBILES: TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Gaining and Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology Case Prepared By William V. Rapp Co-Principal Investigator The College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan 914-945-0630 (Fax: 914-923-1416; 011-81-75-466-1214) E-mail: william.rapp@aya.yale.edu April 2000 SOFTWARE AS A TOOL OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY 1 2 3 4
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the strategies of Toyota Company in their attempt to gain supremacy in the international market. JEL classification: M16 Key words: global strategy; international markets; technological innovation; hybrid systems; kaizen 1. TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is a multinational company that produces cars, trucks, buses and robots, with headquarters in Toyota City, Japan. Toyota is the largest car manufacturer in Asia and second largest producer. Toyota is one of the three
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15 is titled The Realco Breadmaster while case 16 is titled A Bumpy Road for Toyota. According to case 15, Johnny Chang, the owner of Realco Company developed a new bread maker which became a big success across the U. S because of its competitive features and pricing. The major issue revolving around the case is that the product lacked formal planning. According to case 15, the issue revolves around the fact that Toyota Company has a highly ambitious growth agenda that seems to strain the technical
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