Dr Jeffrey K. Liker

Doing better products with better people – what we can learn from Toyota

Wednesday, 3 March 2010, Start 17.30
Location: Hotel Sofitel Wrocław

Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan and President of the Liker Lean Advisors – an organization that teaches and certifies Toyota way practitioners.
He is author of the international best-seller, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World‘s Greatest Manufacturer. The companion (with David Meier) Toyota Way Fieldbook, Mcgraw Hill, 2005 details how companies can learn from the Toyota Way principles. His book with Jim Morgan, The Toyota Product Development System is the first that details the product development side of Toyota. The first book with David Meier is Toyota Talent: Developing exceptional people the Toyota Way followed by Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of theToyota Way. His articles and books have won eight Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence and The Toyota Way also won the 2005 Institute of
Industrial Engineers Book of the Year Award and 2007 Sloan Industry
Studies Book of the Year.

Agenda

17.30  Welcome and Introducion 
           Toyota Way in Poland- L.Kornicki, CEO Staufen Polska
18.00  Toyota Culture - Dr Jeffrey K.Liker University of Michigan
19.30  Question and answers- All
20.00  Toyota Culture in practice – Autoliv Production System  T.Keller, Plan  
           Manager, Autoliv Poland
20.30  Discussion- All
20.40  Summary, networking- All