Action Quote by Dieter Zetsche

DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow…

— Dieter Zetsche

“In the lean enterprise, Sales and Production Scheduling are core members of the product team, in a position to plan the sales campaign as…

— James P. Womack

“The trick is to take a phased approach to gradually build the capability in your organization, realizing results at each stage and developing an…

— Mark Jeffery

“restructuring the organization to embrace more agile and adaptive models is a critical step in building resilience. By moving beyond traditional hierarchies, designing effective…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Product development has become a faster, more flexible process, where radically better products don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders…

— Eric Schmidt

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

— Sam Altman

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and…

— Bill Vaughan

There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some…

— Belinda Johnson

“all of these activities—the creation, ordering, and provision of any good or any service—can be made to flow. And when we start thinking about…

— James P. Womack

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

— Jamie S. Miller

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

— Masaaki Imai

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

— Steve Ballmer