Obeya

Obeya - Japanese for " large room " or " war room " - is a form of project management at Toyota and is part of the Toyota production system, and thus a component of lean management and lean production. During product and process development are all united in the planning people involved in a ' great room ' in order to achieve the fastest communication and quickest decisions. This eliminates the traditional barriers that have evolved through the " department thinking" over time. In a way one can even speak of an expansion team spirit at the administrative level. At Toyota vehicle developments in significantly less than 20 months have thus become possible ( For comparison, the average for other car manufacturers is 36 months ).

• Project Management