{"product_id":"conversations-with-taiichi-ohno-management-insights-for-the-digital-age-paperback","title":"Conversations with Taiichi Ohno: Management Insights for the Digital Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBob Emiliani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if you could sit across from Taiichi Ohno - architect of the Toyota Production System - and ask him the questions managers have been getting wrong for forty years?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConversations with Taiichi Ohno\u003c\/i\u003e, the author imagines five days of dialogue with TPS's architect, drawing on Ohno's published books and personal kaizen experiences to elaborate on the parts of his thinking that most peple consistently miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe format is question-and-answer, with the imagined Ohno blunt and sometimes impatient - in keeping with the directness of his actual personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics extend beyond familiar territory like kaizen, flow, and developing people into subjects Ohno never addressed himself: artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and digital automation. The throughline is a careful argument that TPS is a management system better suited to the digital age than to the industrial one in which it was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter closes with reflection prompts, allowing the book to function as a personal workbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389650211053,"sku":"9780989863186","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/gpRqD659Li9780989863186.webp?v=1785803056","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/conversations-with-taiichi-ohno-management-insights-for-the-digital-age-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}