http://www.workingknowledge.com/blog/managing-innovation-toyotas-strategy/ Accelerating your business success Fri, 03 Mar 2023 03:29:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 http://www.workingknowledge.com/blog/managing-innovation-toyotas-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:51:58 +0000 http://workingknowledge.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1019 I have read the reviews of the 2010 Prius and by all accounts it’s an amazingly innovative machine. I never really stopped to think about how people would have a systematic approach to innovation…. to me… it’s just a flash of creativity or something I write down in my notebook… but I can now understand how a major mechanical product manufacturer needs to be more organized than that!

]]> http://www.workingknowledge.com/blog/managing-innovation-toyotas-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:54:27 +0000 http://workingknowledge.com/blog/?p=212#comment-635 This goes to show how reducing expenditures in one area (by not covering the underside of a car with a panel) costs us and the environment in other ways. It’s a perfect example of how we need to change our accounting system to embrace the environmental price of a product.

]]> http://www.workingknowledge.com/blog/managing-innovation-toyotas-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:49:33 +0000 http://workingknowledge.com/blog/?p=212#comment-498 This, as much as anything, explains why America’s Big 3 automakers are in the toilet. If anyone in R&D had expressed such thinking in the companies’ high-flying days, he would have been slapped down.

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