Key factors to High-level management success: A case study of American Company D succeeding in China

During the process of On-Job Training, what aspects should be prioritized in accordance to successful businesses who operate under the tenants of Lean Manufacturing? This question is the motive for this case study focused on American Company D and the implementation of their brand of Lean Manufacturing used on all aspects. The main purpose of this study is to apply hierarchical analysis to key factors exploring the success of leadership operations. The first step, after literature and interviews with the leadership-level management experts, the five criteria and twenty sub-criteria of the study are set by the American company D's five core values, which apply to the verification of the evaluation of operational success. The second step, through the empirical results of the expert questionnaire survey, shows that "the best team wins" as the most important criterion. According to the evaluation criteria, the top nine key factors in order are " External voice of quality ", " Organizational planning ", " Talent development system ", "internal quality improvement", " High-level leadership management ability training ", "Lean policy deployment ", " Delivery-external feedback ", " Innovation-external feedback " and "Lean operating system " to provide suggestions for supervisor leadership-level management improvements.