Innovation in manufacturing comes from the floor, not the corner office. Speaker B argues you can't manage it centrally; you need ideas from everyone at the lowest level. Real transformation scales only when all employees can contribute.
One of the things that we've talked about a lot over the years was celebrating innovation by celebrating the innovators. And oftentimes, you'll see innovators, problem solvers all throughout the organization, working at my cell, working in my plant, not necessarily from the executive suite. So maybe just your thoughts on where are you typically seeing maybe transformation come from? Is it more— And that commitment that you're talking about, is that coming from the top down, or you see people trying to innovate and do things, you know, right where they are every day?
Yeah, I think that's a really interesting thing. How do you allow for innovation is a really powerful concept, really, because innovation can't be managed. It can't be created centrally because it's back to the scale, really. You need lots of innovative ideas and you need lots of Lots of people being able to create things. What then you need, and that needs to be kind of at the lowest level of— lowest in, not in intellect or anything like that, but really it needs to be everybody needs to be a part of that community that's innovating and coming up with ideas.
