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Second, companies need to make sure that a self-organizing project team is overseeing the new-product development process.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Then one day, one of the developers came in with a Harvard Business Review paper from 1986, written by two Japanese business professors, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It was titled, “The New New Product Development Game.” Takeuchi and Nonaka had looked at teams from some of the world’s most productive and innovative companies: Honda, Fuji-X
... See moreJeff Sutherland • Scrum
Second, the story of the Honda City suggests how new knowledge always starts with an individual—Hiroo Watanabe in this case—and how an individual’s personal knowledge is transformed into organizational knowledge valuable to the company as a whole (i.e., Tall Boy).
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
More formally, each division has to comply with a corporate requirement that at least 25 percent of its sales must be derived from products that did not exist five years ago.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
He insists that what executive management needs is not managerial theory, but rather a philosophy on how to guide an organization.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
What I keep telling the top managers is to manage employees in such a manner as to allow them to develop their own ideas. I tell them they mustn’t push ideas from the top down. … In my beginning-of-the-year address last year, I told the employees, “You know the saying, ‘the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.’ But what if the nail doesn’t stic
... See moreHirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Organizational knowledge is also created through an interactive process.