Real Innovation At Last
1 August 2006
Kevin and I have hammered the 'Innovation' fad pretty hard lately. Too often innovation seems to be pursued by companies which have utterly f…
Lean Sigma Innovation
30 July 2006
You can tell that I'm a manufacturing guy without a lick of sense when it comes to marketing. If I were smart, I would change the name of my busi…
There's That Innovation Word Again...
26 July 2006
Apparently every serious business article these days must include the word "innovation". So I guess it's about time I wrote something s…
Forget Six Sigma, Just Innovate!
11 July 2006
CNN/Fortune (not to be confused with CNN/Business2.0, CNN/Money, CNN/Time... apparently CNN doesn't do original content anymore) has an online art…
The Innovator's Folly 5 - The Bottom Line
19 June 2006
While the mass producers who are agog about innovation are right in line with the hare in the old 'Tortoise and the Hare' parable, lean manufa…
The Innovator's Folly 4 - Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Profitability
18 June 2006
Bob Lutz and Mark Fields have talked loud and often about the urgent need to create exciting, innovative products. GM will be saved when Lutz comes u…
The Innovator's Folly 3 - Darwin Style
18 June 2006
I learned innovation's proper perspective when I had the privilege of translating Hiroyuki Hirano's book, JIT Is Flow, from the crude Jangales…
The Innovator's Folly 2 - Playing The Long Shot
17 June 2006
As you are reading this, at least six academics and a dozen consultants are probably writing up case studies and white papers on the body shop's &…