I think this is what you're alluding to, but it is shocking how small some of the NES teams mentioned in this book are! The teams that made Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers were comprised of ~five people and only one or two of them were programmers.
Yes the teams were tiny and well dressed and working at the cutting edge of technology of the day building everything from the level of assembly
I'm telling you these are the people to emulate not the factory practices at the other Japanese company
Perhaps if building hardware it can be considered but the whole Toyota model is more about building a management structure around something that really doesn't need one
