The future of our digital past: how do we stop our precious files from being lost forever?

If you owned a computer in the 1990s, the chances are that somewhere in your attic there's a dusty box of floppy disks that you haven't touched for years. But...

Which?

...I would say we too often criticize lean based on very poor applications called "lean." Studying Toyota is what gave us the name lean. Toyota has significant investments over the very long term in robotics; they innovated to create the Prius (and still dominate the hybrid market) and invest in research on things including home building, biotechnology and a thought controlled wheel chair...

https://evop.blogspot.com/2013/02/lean-thinking-aids-innovation-even-if.html

#lean_thinking #management #long_term_thinking #Innovation

Lean Thinking Aids Innovation Even if Poor Management Labeling Itself Lean Doesn't

Response to LinkedIn discussion asking if lean and innovation can co-exist (closed access and I don't think LinkedIn understands how urls wo...

Toyota is Smart Enough to Stick with What Works, Right?

https://evop.blogspot.com/2012/02/toyota-is-smart-enough-to-stick-with.html

"...Akio Toyoda: #Toyota's comeback kid paints the typical American magazine picture of radical CEO doing radical things to shake up company and general be heroic. They don't seem to like to say, Toyota refocused on what has made it great for decades...

American executives don't want to be seen that way - they want to be portrayed as heroes."

#management #leadership #change #long_term_thinking

Toyota is Smart Enough to Stick with What Works, Right?

I don't believe Toyota is foolish enough to have "dramatically changed the way the company is managed." If so Toyota will suffer and the bi...