Professor Elam

I talk a lot about design and its importantce. This is a great interview about innovation versus six sigma.
Please read it, we will be discussing six sigma this semester in the cost class.  Six sigma is all about maintaining quality of a known quantity, how we build a car, how we do eye surgery, how we register students. But  the person inteviewed makes the point that change never comes from the center, it comes from the periphery. Thing about the spacecraft that won the prize for achieving the edge of space.

It has portholes for a windshield because they don’t require as stong a piece as one windshield
No one wore a spacesuit, the pilot was my age and wore a t shirt and and a ball cap
They did it all for $20 M, a remarkable accomplishment.

Look back on my blog where I discuss simple cars like the Renault Logan.

Innovation is coming in India, France, China, not in Detroit. Think outside the box as they say.