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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

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. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

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. and Japan.

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