Mon Devoir DCG anglais des affaires EFC

Devoir D0122

ANGLAIS DES AFFAIRES

EMILE OCEANE

Stretch goals are goals that are supposed to be unattainable and are set up to stimulate the company.

 Right L 10 ''  by setting apparently unattaible goals , high performance companies are (…) and involve employees at all levels ''

2. Toyota Motor Corp has led the way in terms of stretch goals.

 Right ''  an important lesson about stretch goals comes from Japan's Toyota Motor corp'' L 14

3. According to Steven J. Spear, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Technology and Operations Management Unit in Boston Toyota’s main asset is the fact that its employees work harder and longer hours than its competitors.

 Wrong ''basis of its ability to learn more quickly and more consistently than competitors '' L 27

4. Toyota’s high levels of achievement are a direct consequence of its thirst for knowledge.

 Right ''t's Toyot's insatiable appetite for learning that allows it to achieve much higher levels of performance'' L30

5. In addition, this high level of achievement has been reached without multiplying Toyota’s workforce.

 Right ''By establishing stretch goals at every cut and slice of the organization, you have employees coming to work thinking how they can subtract two or three seconds from .. '' l  35

6. Toyota’s Production system is a system by which all workers are invested with a mission to improve things all the time.

 Right ''he was amazed by the number of supervisors, managers and team leaders involved in the company's continuous improvement process''L 36

7. Toyota’s President Fuji Cho has been quite happy about his company’s results and has now decided to let some of the pressure go.

 Wrong

Summary :

The article from The Wall street Journal is dealing with compagnies' strategies to improve efficiency. In order to reach a high performance, stretch goals have been implemented in companies. One good example is Toyota which is able to outperform its competitors. It gives to employees means to work smarter. Organization is at the core of the strategy. They have to be organized and constently reinvent the compagny to keep an advantage.  

Traduction :

Les efforts d'une amélioration continue représentent aussi le fondement de la  «Méthode Toyota ».  «  Si tu ne t'occupes pas de la réinvention de ton entreprise, je peux te garantir que tu feras marche arrière. Pire encore, tes clients vont probablement chercher ailleurs » selon le président Fujio Cho.

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