ICOS Presents:

"Knowledge-based Management and Organization"

Professor Kazuo Ichijo

Organizational Behavior & Management, Hitotsubashi University

March 24, 2006

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Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:02:27)

Problem Statement: Knowledge as Competitive Advantage (00:04:07)

Renewed Interests in knowledge Creation (00:04:44)

Three Kinds of Knowledge (00:06:36)

Two Kinds of Knowledge (00:08:34)

Three Kinds of Knowledge (00:09:03)

Case Study of Toyota (00:10:07)

Tacit TPS (00:10:16)

Toyota Way of Sharing Knowledge Globally (00:12:14)

Rapid Expansion of Toyota's Global Operations (00:15:03)

Necessity for New Knowledge Transfer Mechanism (00:15:45)

GDP (00:16:53)

Toyota's Challenges in Globalization (00:17:59)

Sharing the Toyota Way Globally (00:18:54)

The Toyota Way: Definition (00:19:45)

The Toyota Way (00:20:46)

Practicing the Toyota Way (00:21:16)

Functional Toyota Ways (00:21:32)

Structure of the Toyota Way (00:23:38)

The Toyota Way: Continuous Improvement (00:24:05)

Three Core Capabilities of Toyota (00:24:22)

Evolution of the Toyota Way (00:27:35)

Evolution of the toyota Way: Doing Kaizen! (00:28:23)

Evolution of toyota's Global Operations (00:28:49)

Case 1 :Evolution of Toyota's Global Operations (00:29:10)

Case: IMV as the Initial Success (00:30:00)

Case: Evolution of Toyota Way in Europe (00:32:56)

Auto plants are shifting from west to east due to labor costs (00:34:57)

TPCA (00:35:41)

AYGO (00:36:04)

Peugeot (00:36:10)

Citroen C1 (00:36:15)

C1 and Aygo on the same line (00:36:38)

$2,000 Car by Tata (00:36:59)

Peugeot (00:38:39)

Challenges at TPCA (00:41:04)

New Kanban System at TPCA (00:42:55)

The entire operation status is shared by everybody (00:43:59)

Operators pulled down the code (00:45:09)

Even junior operators are allowed to stop the operation line (00:45:28)

Operators pulled down the code (00:45:50)

Visualization, using pictures only (00:48:34)

Problems are shared (00:49:27)

The entire operation status is shared by everybody (00:50:02)

Four layers of organization (00:52:30)

Senior managers and junior operators work together on the spot (00:53:12)

Training of Kanban system using LEGO blocks (00:54:43)

Kanban code for LEGO training (00:55:20)

Knowledge as a Strategic Asset (00:55:38)

Two Kinds of Organization (00:56:57)

Innovative Company Knowledge (00:58:33)

Strategic Management of Knowledge (00:59:44)

Creating Knowledge (01:02:06)

Sharing Knowledge (01:03:18)

Protecting Knowledge (01:03:53)

Competitive Advantage through the Evolving System (01:06:13)

Questions (01:07:05)

Presentation of Tile (01:26:01)

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