The Machine That Changed The World (by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones & Daniel Roos)

• 1990 edition,  323 pages
• Published by Rawson Associates  / Macmillian Publishing, New York.
• Paperback.  Format C.
• Good plus condition.  Minor cover wear, creases.  Minor edge foxing.

Based on The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-Million-Dollar 5-Year Study On The Future of The Automobile.  Indexed.

If you read one book about business this year, this is the one from which you'll learn the most. It is the first to reveal...

• How the Japanese have been able to move ahead of the rest of the world in the global auto wars.
• Their secret weapon:  a manufacturing method called lean production, explained here in depth for the first time
• How the lack of implementation of lean production has been eroding the supremacy of American and European auto makers
• How some smart companies in the West are beginning to adopt lean production
• What industry everywhere must learn about lean production to succeed in the 1990s
• How lean production is going to change not only the way things are made but the fate of companies and nations, and how we live, work and think
• What we can all learn from this deeply researched project.