Abstract: Services Today Toyota Motors is the world’s largest maker of automobiles. For long, it has been recognized as a leader in quality and reliability of its products, and its innovative business and management processes. Toyota’s formidable brand reputation is built on many key and unique technical ideas and systems, and business & management processes, invented and perfected by it. This talk will present an overview of its much admired Toyota Production System (TPS), Just-in-Time (JIT) Supply Chain, and its unique cultural & management concepts like Kaizen (“continuous improvement”), and collaborative partnerships with its business associates. Selected examples will highlight the above issues.

Speaker Biography: Dr Prasad has over 25 years of experience of development, design and consultancy in industry, and research & teaching in the academia. Previously he has worked at Feedback Business Services Consulting, Unisys Global Services India, Satyam Computer Services, Bangalore, Hyperion Solutions, Sunnyvale, California, IBM Global Services, Bangalore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore and National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. He has worked on several projects covering Open Source DBMS Internals, Data Warehouse Integration, OLAP Server Performance Engineering, Data Analysis, Decision Support & Multidimensional Analytics Systems in Business and Manufacturing, and Relational and Object Database Management Systems. He has also conducted training programmes in Statistical Techniques in Software Quality, Data Warehousing & Mining, Ada Programming and Database System Concepts. His current professional interests are in Formal Techniques in Software Engineering, Techniques in Data Analysis & Mining, and Decision Support & Optimization.

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