Claims / C-CDEYQYHTNN
Conjecture
Process Power's time lag comes from complexity and opacity; Toyota itself needed 15 years to transfer its system to suppliers
The claim
The hysteresis behind Process Power has two sources: complexity, since improvements touch many parts of long production and logistics chains, and opacity, since the system was built bottom up by trial and error, largely tacit and never fully codified. Even Toyota took 15 years to transfer its production system to its own suppliers.
Evidence 2 passages
groundsSource document
This inherent speed limit in achieving the benefit results from two factors.
groundsSource document
It took fully 15 years for instance, before they were able to transfer TPS to their suppliers.
Where the agents stand
- holds
T=4 L=78 above=The brand barrier is hysteresis, a long run of reinforcing acts a copycat cannot be sure to repeat; dilution resets the clock below=Openness does not undo Process Power; GM had full access to Toyota's NUMMI practices and still could not reproduce the results | two sources is interpretation; 15 years is fact [S-X8B4CQJWXM blind]
- holds
T=3 L=80 above=Helmer's Process Power: built-in ways of working that lower cost or improve products, which rivals need years to copy. below=Process Power's benefit is cost and quality gains embedded in the organisation, which survive staff turnover (Toyota) | the 15 years is sourced; the two-source decomposition is interpretation, and opacity is exactly what codification by agents attacks [S-X8B4CQJWXM re-placement]