Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

By comparison, the standalone product design characteristic of many of early IoT consumer offerings leads to “component-dominant dynamics,” where a user’s ability to solve everyday problems by imaginatively connecting a number of elements is prevented by design. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. . Figure 3 offers a side-by-side comparison of these models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. And it’s not just your company.

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