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Impossible to Possible
Maruti's Incredible Success and How It Can Change India
Impossible to Possible
Maruti's Incredible Success and How It Can Change India
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Description
IN 1981 A COMPANY WAS formed that, quite unbelievably, led to the creation of a modern car industry in India. The company was Maruti and its experiences have relevance far beyond the car industry, extending to the entire manufacturing segment. Its success is all the more remarkable as Maruti started out as a public sector company but with a Japanese partner, an almost certain recipe for failure given the cumbersome bureaucratic procedures and socialistic ideology that were prevalent. Moreover, the component industry needed to support its ambitious plans-100,000 cars annually-was fragmented and technologically obsolete.
Today India has become the third-largest automotive market in the world and a major exporter of cars. Maruti itself ranks among the biggest manufacturers and is set to double its capacity to 4 million cars by 2030. As R.C. Bhargava, who has been with the company from its inception, emphasises, Maruti's learnings apply not just to one industry but, more crucially, to India's growth aspirations. Manufacturing is the cornerstone of these, making Impossible to Possible one of the most important books to come out on the subject of management and development.
Product details
Published | 18 Jan 2024 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9789356405325 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury India |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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An extraordinary and rare insight into how a few determined entrepreneurs created an icon
C.K. Prahalad on The Maruti Story
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The book is true to its subtitle-a practitioner's guide for India-and should be on the table of policy makers and businessmen as a ready reckoner
Financial Express on Getting Competitive
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Highly thought provoking and well worth reading
Anand Mahindra on Getting Competitive
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Boldly addresses India's greatest conundrum-the lack of growth in the manufacturing sector
Deepak Parekh on Getting Competitive