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Nissan ran a very successful car manufacturing facility for many years in the U.K. This kind of cultural adaptation is exactly how they did it. And it turns out
by moomin 4y ago
Nissan ran a very successful car manufacturing facility for many years in the U.K. This kind of cultural adaptation is exactly how they did it. And it turns out that Geordies were more than capable of executing “The Nissan Way”.
- Apocryphon 4y agoAnother attempt, where Toyota and GM attempted to build a plant together in Fremont, California: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
- ForHackernews 4y agoNot just an attempt. Toyota is the one of largest employers of Americans in the auto industry today: https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/top-suppliers/car-manufacturers-in-usa/ https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/top-suppliers/car-manufac...
- Apocryphon 4y agoTrue, they have plenty of plants, I just mean it sounds like NUMMI wasn't as successful as it could've been.
- vxNsr 4y agoAccording to that story which I’ve listened to before, that partnership had a very specific set of goals, once those goals were achieved or deemed unachievable (as the case may be) the purpose of the plant no longer existed so they shut it down.
- buescher 4y agoThat plant is now the Tesla plant.
- FunnyBadger 4y agoIt was very successful locally. The problem that "killed it" was that GM wanted to expand the model to other plants (Van Nuys was the next) and the same techniques didn't work. Likely because the wrong people were running things in Van Nuys compared to Fremont. Leadership is EVERYTHING when it comes to organizational transitions and problems with that.
- chris_j 4y agoWhy "ran" in the past tense? The plant is still running. And why the reference to Geordies - natives of Newcastle - when the plant is in Sunderland? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motor_Manufacturing_UK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motor_Manufacturing_U...
- LAC-Tech 4y agoAnd why the reference to Geordies - natives of Newcastle - when the plant is in Sunderland? Google maps tells me those two places are only 14.3 miles away. So 1) that's pretty understandable to conflate and 2) a lot of people from Newcastle probably commute there.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoMy experience with the British is they frequently have stark rival differences in cultural identity based on which part of which city they live.
- nmstoker 4y agoNot exclusively a British idiosyncrasy, given gangs and tribal habits elsewhere, but you're quite right that we Brits do take to various ways of distinguishing ourselves on sometimes questionable grounds! Location, education level, schools, universities, colleges within universities, accents, vocabulary, class, sports affiliations, it's endless!
- sillystuff 4y agoNot nearly to the same extent as the UK, but in the US, people judge you based on regional accent and vocabulary as well. An English teacher at my high school threw out the curriculum she should have been teaching, and just had us practice vocabulary and (remedial) grammar. She said that we will be consigned to the ghetto as long as we sound like that is where we belong.
- kazen44 4y ago