Comments on: The (Open) Source of all the Trouble with Toyota http://www.design-concepts.com/blog/the-open-source-of-all-the-trouble-with-toyota Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Simon Turner http://www.design-concepts.com/blog/the-open-source-of-all-the-trouble-with-toyota/comment-page-1#comment-32 Simon Turner Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:04:39 +0000 http://www.design-concepts.com/?p=274014#comment-32 Dave What a brilliant idea, but I suspect you are right - not going to happen. Unfortunately, the barrier (in my humble opinion) is not so much around the technical questions and interactions, which would be fascinating, but more around the politics. My guess is that any ideas would be seized upon by the lawyers and politicos and declared to be the latest reason for Toyota's problems. From Toyota's perspective this would mean even more PR issues they would need to defend and more technical arguments they would have to present to people who don't understand (or don't want to understand). Now, don't get me wrong here. I have NO sympathy for a company that risks people's lives but a career in Product Management, Engineering and Manufacturing have taught me to go find the data before deciding on the solution. Unfortunately the mood seems to be more about which hunting than solutions at this point. Regards, Simon Simon Turner President Strategic Practical Thinking Launch | Accelerate | Improve 202 556 1778 Dave

What a brilliant idea, but I suspect you are right – not going to happen.

Unfortunately, the barrier (in my humble opinion) is not so much around the technical questions and interactions, which would be fascinating, but more around the politics.

My guess is that any ideas would be seized upon by the lawyers and politicos and declared to be the latest reason for Toyota’s problems. From Toyota’s perspective this would mean even more PR issues they would need to defend and more technical arguments they would have to present to people who don’t understand (or don’t want to understand).

Now, don’t get me wrong here. I have NO sympathy for a company that risks people’s lives but a career in Product Management, Engineering and Manufacturing have taught me to go find the data before deciding on the solution. Unfortunately the mood seems to be more about which hunting than solutions at this point.

Regards, Simon

Simon Turner
President
Strategic Practical Thinking
Launch | Accelerate | Improve
202 556 1778

]]> By: Seng Weiland http://www.design-concepts.com/blog/the-open-source-of-all-the-trouble-with-toyota/comment-page-1#comment-30 Seng Weiland Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:22:49 +0000 http://www.design-concepts.com/?p=274014#comment-30 Interesting idea! Interesting idea!

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