Quaderni di Management

A bridge between theory and practice

Quaderni di management is a management review addressed to anyone (managers, consultants, academics) interested in deepening his/her knowledge about management, with a focus on innovative and “leading edge” subjects and on paractical cases. The main topics are company organization and management, both for private and state-owned, industrial and service firms.
The review is born with the purpose to "fill in the gap" between purely theoretical and merely technical papers. The added value we would like to propose to our readers is therefore:

• to talk about "state-of-the-art" management theories, methodologies, experiences
• to connect these ones with the real day-to-day activities, in order to make the reader understand their practical implications
• to critically analyse tools and cases, avoiding simplistic enthusiasms and trying on the contrary to understand pros and cons

To get this objectives, the review has two committees: the Scientific Committee, with academics, that has the task to guarantee up-dated and professional subjects, and the Editorial Board, with managers and consultants, that has the task to focus the attention on subjects the firms are really interested in.

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Toyota Kata

Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

Mike Rother

"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."--James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain of Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.

Learning to See

Value-stream mapping to create value and eliminate muda

Mike Rother, John Shook

The Toyota Way 14 Management Principles from the world's greatest manufacturers

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry

Jeffrey K. Liker 

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. "The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.<P>Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector.

Toyota Talent

Developing Your People the Toyota Way 

Jeffrey K. Liker, David P. Meier

Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people. In the international bestseller, The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker explained Toyota's remarkable success through a 4P model for excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. Liker, with coauthor David Meier, provided deeper insight into the practical application of the principles in The Toyota Way Fieldbook. Now, these authorities on Toyota reveal how you can develop talented people and achieve incredible results in your company. Toyota Talent walks you through the rigorous methodology used by this global powerhouse to grow high-performing individuals from within. Beginning with a review of Toyota's landmark approach to developing people, the authors illustrate the critical importance of creating a learning and teaching culture in your organization. They provide specific examples necessary to train employees in all areas-from the shop floor to engineering to staff members in service organizations-and show you how to support and encourage every individual to reach his or her top potential. Toyota Talent provides you with the inside knowledge you need to Identify your development needs and create a training plan Understand the various types of work and how to break complicated jobs into teachable skills Set behavioral expectations by properly preparing your workplace Recognize and develop potential trainers within your workforce Effectively educate nonmanufacturing employees and members of the staff Develop internal Lean Manufacturing experts Guiding you with expert tips and training aids, as well as real-world examples drawn from the authors' two decades of research and field work, Liker and Meier show you how to get the most out of people who live and breathe your company's philosophy-and who work together toward a common goal.

ISBN: 978-3-593-38996-7
Price: 39,90 Euro

ISBN: 978-0-9667843-0-5
Price: 50,00 Euro

ISBN-Nr 0-07-139231-9 

ISBN-Nr 3898793508