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Fujio Cho: Toyota Full Speed Ahead (Fortune, 2005)
Art Smalley · Art of Lean press January 24, 2005
A Fortune magazine profile by Clay Chandler of Toyota CEO Fujio Cho, named Fortune's Asia Businessman of the Year for 2004. It covers Toyota's global expansion, the challenge of transplanting the Toyota Production System overseas, the Global Production Center and Toyota Institute training efforts, China strategy, and hybrid plans, drawing on Cho's recollections of supervising the Georgetown, Kentucky plant from 1986.