Lord Harvey- Jones was at one time chairman of ICI (Maker of Cuprinol amongst another chemical. He was brought in a series of programmes rescuing ailing companies
Sorry to be a pedant, but he was Sir John Harvey Jones, he never became a Lord. A truly exceptional man - he was a Submarine Captain at the age of 24, one of the most demanding jobs imaginable. I think the rest of it came quite easily to him.
As Luddite and Sospan have pointed out, MMC did indeed adopt much of his advice, famously the point about starting production at the top of the hill and pushing the cars down the hill as they progressed, and moving onto new models (the aero).
