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The Machine That Changed the World

by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2020
  • First published 1990

management supply chains

This study from MIT compares Japanese and Western car makers and describes what it calls lean production.   It explains how work methods and supplier relationships produced higher quality at lower cost.