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Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and other world-class organizations use lean product development to drive innovation and transform their business
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Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and other world-class organizations use lean product development to drive innovation and transform their business

by James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 9m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and other world-class organizations use lean product development to drive innovation and transform their business

8Designing the Future by Linking Strategy to Execution

A Toyota-Tesla Comparison

There is nothing that can’t be done. If you can’t make something, it’s because you haven’t tried hard enough.

—SAKICHI TOYODA

Navigating into the Future of Transport

Which automakers will survive for coming generations, becoming the Ford or Mercedes-Benz of the twenty-first century? Which automakers will become extinct like Studebaker or Packard? The future of transport is now rapidly unfolding, with strategic lines being drawn—disruptive technologies on one side and experience and operational excellence on the other. But things are not always as they appear, and there are many lessons to be learned—in the auto industry and for other businesses—as this industrial ...

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ISBN: 9781260128796