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Google Thinks Small by Quentin Hardy, Forbes:
Google has advantages in making this work for them (it is easy to find reasons it won’t work elsewhere). However, this is basically piloting changes on a small scale, analyzing the results and doing that quickly and often. That quick, frequent experimentation is something organizations should strive to achieve.
The clear visible mission is also helpful. When an organization has an organizing principle everyone can understand then action can be guided by individual aim toward that purpose. When the understanding is missing organizations often have to rely on top down instruction and having far too many issues passed up the hierarchy for a decision.
And getting a small group of people to make things work quickly is also great. Many organizations get bogged down with byzantine management structures that slow action to a crawl.
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July 9th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
[...] Google was driven from the beginning by engineers that sought to do what was best. Since those engineers were the founders of the company and still run the company Google has been able to keep the focus not on what is accepted as conventional wisdom but what actually works best. Google understands when you experiment things might not work our. Google’s solution is to experiment quickly and fail early (turn the pdsa cycle quickly). That is something every organization can apply. Still, Gartner analyst Ray Valdes believes Google retains an advantage in price-performance, as well as in overall computing power. [...]
March 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Experiments are useful and underused. PDSA and design of experiments are two concepts that aid in experimenting successfully…
April 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am
it looks like an very easy way to do some simple multi-factorial experiments. Google offers a list of partners for those interested in consulting and more advanced features…
August 16th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Most companies have no way of just replacing their management system with a “Google management system” - they don’t have the managers to make it work, or the staff or the systems or maybe even the business…
October 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Iteration is very important. It is important in proper use of the PDSA cycle - many quick iterations are much better than one long slow one. And for software application development it is an excellent strategy…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:53 am
[...] Experimenting quickly and often (iteration) is extremely important and given far to little focus. The PDSA improvement cycle provides a tool to encourage such thinking but still few organizations practice rapid iteration. [...]
April 1st, 2008 at 9:52 am
There are many reasons why avoiding risks is smart and should be encouraged. But when avoiding risks stifles innovation the risks to the organization are huge…