Toyota Production Team Assignment Top of Form Folder Week 10 Toyota Production Team Assignment Group Category Group Week 10 Group Name Hawks Instructions Team Assignment (W10TA): Planning Production for Toyota North America Lexus RX 350‚ Successor in 2007 to the RX 330 Photo courtesy of Toyota Motor Company Assignment Taskings Address the following four exercises: Exercise 1: Making a Critical Assessment of the Toyota Production System (TPS) Today a. Demonstrate
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: The Lexus and The Olive Tree Summary: Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old. “ The trouble spread to one continent after another like a virus.” USA Today On December 8‚ 1997‚ the government of Thailand shut down 56 of their countries finance houses. These finance houses borrowed heavily in U.S. dollars and lent those dollars out to Thai businesses for the building of hotels‚ office blocks‚ luxury apartments and factories. Almost overnight‚ these private banks had
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Article: Lexus throws down the gauntlet In 1990‚ Lexus created a new line of luxury cars. It’s called the Lexus LS. It had such fine quality that made such a good impression at its first release. Lexus is a branch of Toyota and Toyota could afford to create another luxury car because they had such deep pockets. This article talks about the new 2013 Lexus LS that will have a price range of $83‚050 to $121‚750 and the reason the price is set so high is because they put in such high quality parts
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COMPREHENSIVE CASES Case 1 Running the Numbers: Does It Pay? (Download the data sets for this case from www.cengage. com/marketing/zikmund or request them from your instructor.) Dr. William Ray‚ a research consultant‚ has received a government grant of $75‚000 to fund research examining how aspects of a student’s college experiences relate to his or her job performance. Senator B. I. G. Shot is being lobbied by his constituents that employers are discriminating against people who do not like
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree written by Thomas Friedman is not important because it simply refutes the long held belief that globalization is a temporary side affect to the machinations of American foreign policy interests‚ but because Friedman takes it one step further by claiming it is a totally new world system which has completely replaced the old Cold War system. Even the title of his book is representative of this idea. The Lexus and the Olive tree represent "symbols of the post-Cold War
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Lexus Question: 1. Why are 207 lexus US dealers willing to spend $750 million of their own money upgrading their stores? 2. How they pamper dealer? - Limit the number of dealer - Dealer gain the different 3. Why Lexus should pamper dealer? (p.262) - Lexus concern about dealers and customers ( increase sale( both can gain benefit Lexus summary; 1. High commission for our car 2. Pamper your dealers‚ and they will pamper your customers
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The book the Lexus and the Olive Tree was written by Thomas L. Friendman. The book is about how globalization has taken the world by storm. The book has twenty chapters and is split into four parts. Part one is called Seeing The System‚ part two is called Plugging Into The System‚ part three is called The Backlash Against The System‚ and the final part is called America and The System. To continue‚ Friedman uses vivid stories to give the reader a vivid ideal to what this new system looks like. To
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Country = computer * Basic shell around the economy = hardware After collapse of Cold War‚ the world had the same basic hardware‚ free market capitalism * Broad macroeconomics policies = operating system Communist economic operating system = DOScapital 0.0 Hungary = DOScapital 1.0 Shanghai= DOScapital 4.0 (China hinterland = 1.0) Operating systems based on free markets but have still significant welfare-state components: France‚ Germany‚ Japan DOScapital 5.0 Have liberalized their economies
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Lexus Ad Analysis The advertisement that I chose is for the new Lexus LS F sports car. The ad shows a car in the middle of the picture with an attractive man and woman standing on each side of the car. A dark and dimmed glass room with shadowy figures in the background gives the impression of a club or theater at night. The words “memorable performance” is largely displayed at the bottom of the advertisement. This advertisement mainly attracts men because it portrays a man driving around with an
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree‚ written by Thomas L. Friedman‚ investigates the phenomenon of globalization in our world and how it has established a new international system that has replaced the cold war. This new system of globalization connects people from all over the world from Southeast Asians fighting a recession to Thai bankers to entrepreneurs in the United States. Friedman credits that the democratization of technology‚ information‚ and finance has shrunk our world from small to tiny where
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