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Toyota, hobbled, but retains its culture for innovation – post recall.

May 26th, 2010

The massive recall by Toyota of 8.4 million vehicles (8 million for unintended acceleration (which as of this date has not been adequately diagnosed) and 400,000 for brake problems is, according to the company, attributed to over expansion and insufficient attention to quality. Toyota’s organization was unable to cope with the building of upwards of […]

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BP’s Hidden but Rapidly Changing Culture (for innovation)

May 26th, 2010

With the failure of its off-shore drilling rig and its tarnished reputation for offshore drilling, world-wide attention has been drawn to BP. This failure is not the image which BP has worked for over the past 3 years under the leadership of Tony Hayward. BP you would think, wants to be known as innovative. Its […]

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