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profit beyond measure
waste has plagued almost every industrial age firm for the past century . in this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking experts h. thomas johnson and anders broms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the short run and excessive losses from market instability in the long run . to gain more secure levels of profitability management must simply change how it thinks about work and how it organizes work . profit beyond measure details how two extremely profitable manufacturers toyota and the swedish truck maker scania have rejected the traditional mechanistic mindset of managing by results that generates waste . johnson and broms explain how toyota and scania achieve their legendary cost advantage through a revolutionary concept they call managing by means mbm . instead of being driven to meet preconceived accounting targets the production systems of toyota and scania are governed by the three precepts that guide all living systems self organization interdependence and diversity . amid a wealth of new insights into toyotas vaunted system johnson and broms introduce the tools of mbm to show how design production and profitability analysis are done to customer order . they demonstrate that by following the principles that emulate life systems even a lean and profitable company can organize work to greatly lessen its long term earnings instability and sharply reduce its short run operating costs . scania has achieved sixty five years of financial stability and longevity in the face of fierce competition . toyota has amassed a market value since 1988 that has rivaled or sometimes surpassed the american big three automakers combined . the principles that johnson and broms set forth in profit beyond measure can guarantee the same richer longer life to any company that applies them .