The Toyota Way to Service Excellence, Jeffrey K. Liker
The Toyota Way to Service Excellence, Jeffrey K. Liker
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The Toyota Way to Service Excellence
Lean Transformation in Service Organizations

Author: Jeffrey K. Liker, Karyn Ross

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016


Synopsis

The world’s bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results-The Toyota Way.

A must-read for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the bestselling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is crucial for success. Jeff Liker and Karyn Ross show you how to develop Lean practices throughout your organization using the famous 4P model. Whether you are an executive, manager, consultant, or frontline worker who deals with customers every day, you’ll learn how take advantage of all Lean has to offer.

With this book as your guide, you’ll gain a clear understanding of Lean and discover the principles, practices and tools needed to develop people and processes that surprise and delight each of your customers. These ground-tested techniques are designed to help you make continuous improvements in your services, streamline your operations, and add ever-increasing value to your customers. Fascinating case studies of Lean-driven success in a range of service industries, including healthcare, insurance, financial services, and telecommunications, illustrate that Lean principles and practices work as well in services as they do in manufacturing.

Drawn from original research and real-world examples, The Toyota Way to Service Excellence will help you make the leap to Lean.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori

It took me a month and a half to read this book, but it was so full of useful information. The authors referred to the Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow” a few times, and I would say that this is “slow thinking” kind of book. I had to take my time with it. I loved the summaries at the end of e......more

Goodreads review by Darren

It seems that most managers within a production environment have heard about the Toyota Production System and have their own view about how it can function. Now service-orientated companies can share the benefits through this book. The authors provide a great introduction to the Toyota system – some......more

Goodreads review by Tony

The Toyota Way to Service Excellence by Jeffery K. Liker & Karyn Ross First, I highly recommend this book. As a retired Vice President of Quality Assurance, Plant Manager and college professor I am very familiar with and have used the Toyota methods extensively. In my experience I have found it is mu......more

Goodreads review by Sérgio

Because the author published a streak of great complementary books on Lean (from the Toyota Way to Toyota Way for Leadership) that actually built on each other, my expectations were high on this one. For my surprise it was a book for starts and lack any novelty despite the accumulation of experience......more