Taking Out is one of the 40 Inventive Principles of Problem Solving.
Prompted by the aggressive moves of Tesla Motors, the news is full of full-line car manufacturers announcing electric vehicles in the near future. One could easily conclude that the electric future is already written and that the internal combustion engine (ICE) will soon be put out to pasture. Even so, companies are still labouring to…
This post examines some of Steve Jobs’s application of Principles to building the Apple company. It draws background from this Harvard Business Review article, The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs. Minimizing clutter Steve Jobs was focused on minimizing clutter. This means removing extraneous elements (Principle 2 – Taking Out). When the iPhone was being developed…
“The wiring harness on Model S is about 3 kilometers in length. The wire harness on Model 3 is 1.5 kilometers in length. The wiring harness on Model Y will be 100 meters. And that’s a redundant wiring harness.” Elon Musk, Q1 2017 earnings call While Tesla is still struggling to ramp up production of…
Any any parent knows, the baby will always fall asleep in the car and then stay up all night when you get home. Some parents will even resort to going for a drive with their infant just to rock them to sleep. There’s a nap for that Back in 2017 Ford developed a baby bassinet…
1 or 0 Menu Items Using the Netflix menus with nothing but a TV remote could be a frustrating process, but Netflix has done a great job of keeping clicks to a minimum while making things intuitively obvious. One example of this is adding or removing shows from your watch list. When at the show…