So you all saw this first hand. I just learned about these beneficial process improvement tools (starting with Kaizen and TQM and other various spin-off’s and augmentations) while in graduate school long after they began their disintegration. Though, I developed respect for them and appreciated their revelations while implementing them in projects unrelated to manufacturing and product development.
So, if Concord were just another game, I wouldn’t be surprised, but a $400 million, 8-year long investment touted to be the next Star Wars? There must have been so many opportunities for responsible and assigned individuals to see how dull the thing was turning out. And that’s a real shame–though not likely the traditional variety of Japanese shame, which might not apply here with its adaptations to late Western business practices, and all.
