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Forbes: How Organizational Culture Can Change (about NUMMI)

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How Organizational Culture Can Change - Forbes.com

In spring 2010 New United Motor Manufacturing, the famous joint venture experiment by Toyota and General Motors, will close its doors. John Shook, now an industrial anthropologist, was there at its launch and witnessed that cultural reinvention. He understands how the culture at NUMMI, as it was called, changed so dramatically and quickly.

His team turned a once dysfunctional disaster, GM's Fremont, Calif., plant, into a model manufacturing plant, using the same workers...
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There's a link to a much more detailed article hosted at MIT on the 2nd page. It makes for some interesting reading if you don't have no background in the Toyota Production System. You'll need to register for a free account to view it.

#1 cwerdna, Mar 4, 2010

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