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> A pillar of Toyota's approach is patient, gradual, relentless improvement. There are a lot of signs that Tesla has never really warmed to that. I guess it de
by davedx 8y ago
> A pillar of Toyota's approach is patient, gradual, relentless improvement. There are a lot of signs that Tesla has never really warmed to that.
I guess it depends how you interpret the news and what Musk has said in shareholder meetings. At the last one he explicitly said that they continuously improve the process at Tesla.
- wpietri 8y agoI'm sure he said that. But the US car industry has a long history of boldly declared but ultimately failed attempts to adopt Toyota's process in a way sufficiently deep to get Toyota's results. Rother's book "Toyota Kata" is a good dive into why: they adopted some of the rituals, but never made the deeper cultural and philosophical changes needed to get most of the value.