Toyota Chief believes India more quality-conscious than Japan
November 30th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 62 times, 3 so far today
Toyota Chief believes India more quality-conscious than Japan
Few people connect India to quality. Agreed, India is one of the most looked after markets for brilliant engineers but when it comes to Indian products, you find a lack of demand for quality in consumers. That is why we see cars like Tata Indica and the likes doing so well here. However, the Chairman of Nippon Keidanren & Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation, Okuda Hiroshi think otherwise.
Hiroshi has just said that he thinks that that the economies of India and Thailand were growing fast because of the focus on quality in manufacturing in these countries. He even believes that India and Thailand would soon overtake Japan if Japanese companies do not pay attention of quality.
Hiroshi said while speaking at the meeting organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII): “Despite appeals at the highest level to pay greater attention to quality Japanese companies are not showing much interest in winning the Deming Prize while the quality movement was spreading fast in India and many companies are winning the coveted Deming Prizeâ€.
Toyota is one of the biggest makers of automobiles in the world and is on way to overtake GM in the next couple of years. The company is known for their reliable and high quality products worldwide.
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November 30th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
That is really a Toyota statement, for which they are known i.e. QUALITY. We appreciate their thinking
December 10th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Please send the outcome and the points discussed in Japanese Auto Industrialists meet in India last week.
January 2nd, 2006 at 6:20 pm
This chap is living in totally disconnected world. Yes, quality is sought after in India. Indians try to build quality products as well. But, to say that Indians are more quality aware than Japanese is not entirely true. What rules in India is “reasonable” quality at affordable prices. Please take a look at how South Koreans are doing in India.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
It would be fair to say that Indians are more VFM guys than Quality.