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Category Archives: Innovation
Innovative Thinking at Amazon: Paying Employees $5,000 to Quit
Amazon continues to be innovative not just in technology but with management thinking. Jeff Bezos has rejected the dictates espoused most vociferously by Wall Street mouthpieces and MBAs that encourage short term thinking and financial gimmicks which harm the long … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, Innovation, management, management system, managing people, respect for people, short term thinking, Systems thinking
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Taking Risks Based on Evidence
My opinion has long been that football teams are too scared to take an action that is smart but opens the coach to criticism. So instead of attempting to make it on 4th down (if you don’t understand American football, … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Creativity, Data, Innovation, Management, Psychology
Tagged Creativity, evidence based management, experiments, fear, Innovation, leadership, Psychology, risk, sports
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Jeff Bezos: Innovation, Experiments and Long Term Thinking
Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post. He has long showed a willingness to take a long term view at Amazon. He is taking that same thinking to the Washington Post: In my experience, the way invention, innovation and change happen … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, Process improvement
Tagged Bezos, business, business model, Customer focus, experiments, long term thinking, PDSA, Quality tools
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What is the Explanation Going to be if This Attempt Fails?
Occasionally during my career I have been surprised by new insights. One of the things I found remarkable was how quickly I thought up a new explanation for what could have caused a problem when the previously expressed explanation was … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, curiouscat, experiments, John Hunter, problem solving, Psychology, Software Development, tips
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The Art of Discovery
Quality and The Art of Discovery by Professor George Box (1990): Quotes by George Box in the video: “I think of statistical methods as the use of science to make sense of numbers” “The scientific method is how we increase … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, Science, Statistics
Tagged control chart, curiouscat, Data, evidence based management, experiments, George Box, Innovation, learning, Process improvement, quote, respect for people, Statistics, technology, webcast
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Quality Processes in Unexpected Places
This month Paul Borawski asked ASQ’s Influential Voices to explore the use of quality tools in unexpected places. The most surprising example of this practice that I recall is the Madison, Wisconsin police department surveying those they arrested to get … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Data, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, Public Sector, Respect
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Creativity, Customer focus, customer service, leadership, Lean thinking, Madison, Process improvement, Public Sector, respect for people, Systems thinking
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The Components of Genius
Wonderful poster, by Grant Snider, on the question: what is genius. Related: Comic About Programers – You Have to Find What You Love To Do – Marissa Mayer Webcast on Google Innovation – Interruptions Can Severely Damage Performance
Accept Taking Risks, Don’t Blithely Accept Failure Though
For discussion by ASQ’s Influential Voices this month, Paul Borawski looks at Risk, Failure & Careers in Quality. There is a bias toward avoiding the possibility of failure by avoiding actions which may lead to failure or even any action … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Innovation, poka yoke
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New Deadly Diseases
Management and the economy keep evolving. Many good things happen. In the last decade the best things are probably the increased deep adoption of lean thinking in many organizations and the adoption of lean and Deming methods in software development … Continue reading
You’ve Got to Find What You Love
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Education, Fun, Innovation, Psychology, quote
Tagged Career, Creativity, Education, Innovation, inspiration, intrinsic motivation, jobs, Joy in Work, motivation, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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