Comments on: COMMENTARY: First Thoughts on the Super Bowl http://www.thirdwayblog.com/post-types/commentary/commentary-first-thoughts-on-the-superbowl.html Straight Talk on Advertising from the Client Side Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Lani http://www.thirdwayblog.com/post-types/commentary/commentary-first-thoughts-on-the-superbowl.html#comment-24839 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:46:20 +0000 http://www.thirdwayblog.com/post-types/commentary/commentary-first-thoughts-on-the-superbowl.html#comment-24839 The manufacturing geeks over at the Evolving Excellence blog (www.evolvingexcellence.com) are thrashing the GM commercial as well. Fundamentally they say the reason Toyota has such high quality is due to their respect for people, which creates employee continuous improvement suggestion programs, which robots can’t do. Instead of firing someone (or a robot) over a dropped screw, Toyota would get a team of people together to figure out what process failure led to the screw being dropped… not canning tens of years of experience for a mistake that probably wasn’t the person’s (robot’s) fault. It’s a good read: http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/02/gms_disrespect_.html The manufacturing geeks over at the Evolving Excellence blog (www.evolvingexcellence.com) are thrashing the GM commercial as well. Fundamentally they say the reason Toyota has such high quality is due to their respect for people, which creates employee continuous improvement suggestion programs, which robots can’t do. Instead of firing someone (or a robot) over a dropped screw, Toyota would get a team of people together to figure out what process failure led to the screw being dropped… not canning tens of years of experience for a mistake that probably wasn’t the person’s (robot’s) fault. It’s a good read:

http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/02/gms_disrespect_.html

]]> by: SW http://www.thirdwayblog.com/post-types/commentary/commentary-first-thoughts-on-the-superbowl.html#comment-24775 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:24:24 +0000 http://www.thirdwayblog.com/post-types/commentary/commentary-first-thoughts-on-the-superbowl.html#comment-24775 Kevin Federline's spot was the best of the bunch and was very funny. I found my self watching that one more than once on the Tivo. Kevin Federline’s spot was the best of the bunch and was very funny. I found my self watching that one more than once on the Tivo.

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