en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/2397 Comments by Pete Abilla http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2372#IDComment160424341 Consultant-speak at its best. What is missing in the article is a thread of clarity and simplicity in showing how Lean and Innovation can and does co-exist. What will help is to clearly define &quot;Innovation&quot;. At bottom, innovation is finding a solution to a problem. Even better, finding the simplest, cheapest, most effective and practical solution to a problem. I think Lean is well suited to support innovation because its bias is towards finding elegant, cost-effective, and effective countermeasures to root causes. &quot;Innovation&quot; as described in superficially in this article, seems to point to shiny bright objects that may or may not actually solve a human problem. Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:19:32 +0000 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2372#IDComment160424341 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/11/data-vs-facts.html#IDComment40717 Brad -- your analysis is pretty shallow. There is a long history of Data versus Fact -- this, really, is a question about epistemology, reaching back to Socrates. <br /> <br />More recently, however, Taiichi Ohno, the creator of the Toyota Production System adds a twist: being at the place of where value is added (genchi genbutsu and gemba) is experiencing the facts of the situation. Data, on the other hand, is a step removed from facts. <br /> <br />Taiichi strongly advocated &quot;being at the place&quot;, not in some boardroom discussing charts and graphs, when being at the production floor with the people, machines, and processes -- that is where the real story is. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:34:45 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/11/data-vs-facts.html#IDComment40717