Jeffrey K. Liker
Lean manufacturing author and professor
Jeffrey K. Liker is an engineering academic at the University of Michigan. He wrote the international best-seller The Toyota Way.
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About Jeffrey K. Liker
Liker holds emeritus status at the University of Michigan, where his field is industrial and operations engineering. He is also president of Liker Lean Advisors. The Toyota Way, published in 2004, is available in 26 languages and has sold more than a million copies. Liker has coauthored further books about Toyota, and his research has won Shingo Prizes. He was inducted into the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Shingo Academy in 2016. With Mike Rother, he has also studied and written about Toyota Kata. Outside work he plays golf and has taken up classical guitar again after three decades away from it.