...T Kippenberger States that, despite what many a business school's curriculum or management consultant's product may suggest, management does not fit easily into discrete packages. Posits partnering brings all the benefits of collaborative working, agreed objectives, mutual learning, creativity...

.... Creativity Design and development Lean manufacturing Motor industry Smart Cars © MCB UP Limited 1997 ...

...T Kippenberger Discusses creativity and how it is hard work even for the best creatives. Aligns it with the jazz term ‘jam’ in that it means taking theme, question, notion, whim, idea and pass it around to get the full picture. States creativity is the entire process by which ideas are generated...

... for the way it is created and managed. Comments that to blindly emulate Japanese practice would be dangerous as are personal interpretations, but the way the Japanese acquire knowledge and then create more is to be commended. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Knowledge intensive workers Creativity Idea...