Sublime

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,

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).