detailed coverage of knowledge management concepts and methodologies which includes knowledge creation‚ knowledge architecture‚ and knowledge codification. The knowledge management tools and knowledge portals as well as the notions of knowledge transfer in the E-world are discussed. Aims The aims of this unit include the broad understanding of the following areas of Knowledge Management Systems: • Knowledge Management Systems Life Cycle. • Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Architecture. • Capturing
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Introduction For my project I have chosen a Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) an international automobile manufacturer. In addition‚ Toyota provides retail and wholesale financing‚ retail leasing and certain other financial services primarily to its dealers and their customers related to vehicles manufactured by Toyota. The major portions of Toyota ’s operations on a worldwide basis are derived from the Automotive and Financial Services business segments. The Company also has an All Other segment
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Toyota Motors Marketing Plan for Hybrid Vehicles by geographic location (Europe) 1.0 Executive Summary The Toyota Motor Company continues to strive to be the global market leader in the automobile manufacturing industry. Over the years‚ Toyota has managed to remain the leader of this industry through its management structure‚ fuel efficient vehicle design and competitive pricing based on global market knowledge. Toyota has realized that environmentally conscious products were needed to ensure
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In August 2007‚ one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers‚ Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)‚ announced that its joint venture in India‚ Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) had set up a technical school called Toyota Technical Training Institute (TTTI)‚ on the outskirts of Bangalore‚ India. The company said that TTTI was meant for those who had passed out of middle school (Class 10) but could not continue their education due to financial or other constraints. TMC projected the setting
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Toyota Crisis: Management Ignorance? Abstract Since the late 2009‚ the famous vehicle manufacture Toyota has suffered a severe crisis due to unintended quality problems in its cars which had triggered Toyota’s largest officially recalls of its cars around the world. This crisis threatens the company’s previous reputation of good quality cars‚ as well as the brand image built up over time. This study aims to elaborate on the Toyota crisis in order to understand why Toyota faces this crisis and
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INTRODUCTION Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) was established on September 5‚ 1995 (official opening in October 1996). The total investment capital was 89.6 million USD based on the capital contribution of Toyota Motor Corporation (70%)‚ Vietnam Engine and Agricultural Machinery Corporation - VEAM (20%) and KUO Singapore Pte.Ltd (10%). TMV focuses on three business fields‚ which are: Producing‚ assembling and selling Toyota vehicles; Repairing‚ maintaining and selling Toyota genuine parts; and Exporting
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Toyota Management Planning In order to keep an organization flowing and to achieve the goals that are set-forth the management teams have to continually watch their planning processes. To make sure that nothing is missed in any of the steps the planning teams such as change management taking charge to monitor the growth is able to happen. For Toyota there have been some large changes going on over the past few years with the difficulties from the over-seas suppliers due to the tsunami then
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TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1994 Core-Competencies The core competence of Toyota Motor Corporation is its ability to produce automobiles of great quality at best prices‚ thereby providing a value for money to the customers. This core competence of quality can be attributed to its innovative production practices. The quality aspect of Toyota’s products have revolutionized the automobiles in the past and almost all the automobile companies had to try and better the quality of their products. It is a
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Queen’s KBE Centre for Knowledge-Based Enterprises 1 WORKING PAPER WP 02-09 KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A CROSS-CULTURAL SETTING: A CASE STUDY Dianne Ford Dr. Yolande Chan Queen’s University at Kingston April 2002 Queen’s KBE Centre for Knowledge-Based Enterprises 2 Knowledge Sharing in a Cross-Cultural Setting: A Case Study Dianne P. Ford Yolande E. Chan1 Queen’s School of Business Queen’s University e-mail: dford@business.queensu.ca Authors’ Vitae Dianne P. Ford received her B.A. Honours
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Toyota Implements New Marketing Strategies to Restore Consumer Trust and Overhaul the Company’s Image Webster University Abstract This paper explores the various marketing strategies undertaken by Japanese automaker‚ Toyota Motor Corporation to restore consumer trust and overhaul the company’s image in response to a 10 million worldwide vehicle recall in 2010. The recalled vehicles were the result of an influx of acceleration-related accidents for which Toyota faced hundreds of
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