Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. Digital capabilities come before AI.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Reference – Reducing Variability: A New Approach to Quality , L.P. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984). – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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