Toyota Corp.: Background, IT System, and Culture

This article discusses the background of Toyota Corp., its IT system, and culture. It also explains why Toyota Corp. was selected for analysis.

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Background of organization and its IT system
Toyota is an organization which deals with automobile manufacturing, it is based in
Japan. Toyota had been established on August 28 in the year 1937 (Su, Levina & Ross, 2016).
This organization provides various financial services and participates with numerous fields of
businesses (Matsuo, 2015). Toyota manufactures vehicles under its own brand name. Their
vehicles are popular in terms of reliability, longevity, engineering, value and quality.
The IT system used by Toyota allows it to exchange data for customers for the purpose of
extended web based information as well as duration of their purchase (Matsuo, 2015).
The system adopted by Toyota is a lean system; it helps the organization in introducing a
pull system consisting of short lead time and compromising two consecutive components
(Liker & Jeffrey 2018). Toyota had adapted to the market conditions of automobiles
readily and the usage of IT systems had increased their efficiency even more (Frank,
2016). The company had started conducting an audit of their performances and confirmed
regarding the information that they already had, IT experts were hired in order to
incorporate the IT system to their business (Geerken & Borup, 2017). They had also
undertaken various steps that helped them in adopting various methods of utilizing IT
systems for improving performance of the business. Saba helps Toyota in delivering a
cloud based intelligent talent management solution. This system is used in order to build,
develop, hire to inspire and engage their staffs.
Why Toyota Corp has been selected
Toyota Corp has been used for this analysis because its workspace culture provides
various responses of staffs to the issues faced by the company in the market (Mulholland &

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Shaun, 2015). This culture is utilized by Toyota in order to attract human resource capabilities in
their innovation.
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