The Toyota Way - by Jeffrey K. Liker - About the Author

• Introduction
• PART I: USING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AS A STRATEGIC WEAPON
• PART II: FOURTEEN PRINCIPLES—THE CULTURE BEHIND TPS
• PART III: APPLYING TPS AND THE TOYOTA WAY
• Remarks
• Reading Suggestions
• CONTENTS
• About the Author

About the Author

Jeffrey K. Liker, PhD, a principal of Optiprise, a lean enterprise/supply chain management consulting firm, is professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he is also cofounder and director of the Japan Technology Management Program Lean Product Development Certificate programs. Dr. Liker, who was the editor of Becoming Lean: Experiences of U.S. Manufacturers (which won the 1998 Shingo Prize for excellence in manufacturing research), has written on Toyota for The Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and other leading publications.

For more information, please visit:www.optiprise.com