One of the topics in the first assignment was a discussion on the decline of Honda and Toyota’s failure to dominate America’s sedan market. It was explained in the article entitled Honda Fails with Toyota to Dominate American Sedan Market: Cars from the website www. businessweek. com; that the dominance of the two major Japanese car makers among U. S. small car and family sedan […]

INTRODUCTION In this fiercely aggressive business world, the goal of most firms is to establish distinctive or unique capabilities to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace through utilising the most of their core competencies. Competencies refer to the fundamental knowledge owned by the firm (knowledge, know-how, experience, innovation and unique information), and to be distinctive they are not confined to functional domains but cut […]

Case Study: Toyota Revs Up U.S. Sales Summary Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan ran full speed since 1990 to meet its global corporate objectives into becoming the leader in the world’s automobile industry. However, it did not meet expectations due to the unperceived slow growth of the European and Southeast Asian markets. Competition in their homeland has also been so tight and sales are being […]

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE PRINCIPLES OF TOYOTA’S RENOWNED SYSTEM ANANTH V. IYER SRIDHAR SESHADRI ROY VASHER New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2009 by Ananth V. Iyer, Sridhar Seshadri, and Roy Vasher. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, […]

Asian Institute of Technology School of Management SM71. 42 Cross-cultural Management How does Toyota operate its philosophies between Japan and Thailand? [pic] Tutor: Prof. Dr. Marie-Therese Claes Group 1: • Ms. Phung Viet Ha • Ms. Nguyen Le Hang • Mr. Vu Quang Linh • Mr. Nguyen Van Ha • Mr. Nguyen Trung Thuc Date: September 7, 2012 Executive summary In the 21 century, the […]

Toyota culture : Toyota Motor Corporation is considered as the world’s largest automobile manufacturer . And Toyota’s culture is consider as one of the determinants of its success. Therefore Toyota culture is very famous. Specific Toyota’s culture is condensed The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviors that underlie the Toyota Motor Corporation’s managerial approach and production system. It has […]

MIS Porter’s Five Forces Model Of Toyota Porter’s five forces model is a framework for the industry analysis and development of business strategy. Three of Porter’s five forces refers to rivalry from external/outside sources such as micro environment, macro environment and rest are internal threats. It draws ahead Industrial Organization economics to develop five forces that conclude the competitive intensity and consequently attractiveness of a […]

The Toyota Company has many ongoing effects to external environments which include general and task environments. There are many challenges that an industry like Toyota faces when dealing with general environment and task environment. Over the next three years Toyota is faced with many difficulties that must be faced from top management all the way to lower management. Toyota is caught up with many general […]

In today automobiles industry, Toyota is well-known not only in Asia but also all over the world. Established seven decades ago, we could say that Toyota brand has been appeared most of countries all over the world, and they have a big influence on automobiles industry. Beside the success of Toyota through decades, Toyota has faced with many obstacle that affect strongly on its reputation […]

As the competition among autonomous driving businesses is getting intense, Toyota and Uber will try to catch up by deciding to partner in developing self-driving cars. They plan to use technology from both companies into Toyota’s Sienna minivans to be deployed across Uber’s ride-hailing network from 2021. Together, they aim to design and produce safe autonomous vehicles for the mass market. This deal benefits both […]