Comments on: The Economist praises a dangerous and obsolete management concept http://art2science.org/2009/09/14/the-economist-praises-a-dangerous-and-obsolete-management-concept/ How technologies evolve from Art to Science - which changes everything about them Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeff Schneider http://art2science.org/2009/09/14/the-economist-praises-a-dangerous-and-obsolete-management-concept/#comment-16 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:50:57 +0000 http://art2science.org/?p=31#comment-16 Hmm… not sure I completely agree. The experience curve was never supposed to be the ‘single law’ that ruled all laws. It suggested that over time (and with experience) the corporation had the opportunity to become more efficient. It didn’t mandate that ALL of them did.

Coupling the experience curve with other issues (GM’s union problems,etc.) is a bit of a red herring. In addition, the experience curve was fundamentally about ‘learning’ (such as what Toyota did with JIT).

Just my humble opinion…
Jeff

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