Auto Wars

In an op-ed in The New York Times this morning, Thomas Friedman derides Toyota for not supporting tougher mileage standards for autos. Assisting Detr…

Yesterday Knowledge@Wharton published an audio interview with Wharton professor John Paul MacDuffie, co-director of the International Vehicle Developm…

Monday's Wall Street Journal had an editorial titled The Drive-a-Toyota Act that has taken me a couple days to digest.  It is an interesting mish-…

Detroit is raving about the recent news that GM has practically matched Toyota in terms of factory productivity. General Motors Corp., once the symbo…

This morning brought us the news we've been expecting for several years: Toyota Overtakes GM As Top World Auto-Maker Whoopee.  Who cares?  Toyot…

Good article in the Detroit News yesterday titled Honda Sneaks Up On Big Three, discussing how the company flies under the radar and lets Toyota be th…

The BBC has been pushing the lean impact of the auto wars over the past few days.  Two days ago they had a story on The Triumph of Lean Production com…

The New York Times published an article last week on how Toyota is teaching the Toyota Way to a new generation of foreign managers, in an effort to av…