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Category Archives: Innovation
The Need to Improve Management While Building Organizations Fit For Human Beings
[embedded video link broken, so that code was removed but you can watch the video by following this link: Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment. I agree with Gary Hamel that we need to adopt new management strategies. … Continue reading
Sometimes Micro-managing Works
Sometimes micro-managing works. That doesn’t mean it is a good strategy to replicate. If you benchmark Apple you might decide that you should have a tyrannical obsessive involved CEO who is directly involved in every detail of products and services. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, Management
Tagged Apple, Creativity, Customer focus, Investing, leadership, management, stockholders
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Customer Focus and Internet Travel Search
The internet should make finding airline flight information easy. Instead it is a huge pain. Hipmunk has taken on the challenge of doing this well, and I think they have done a great job. This video provides an excellent view … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, IT, Management, Process improvement
Tagged Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, internet, IT, travel, usability, webcast
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Learn by Seeking Knowledge – Not Just from Mistakes
Being open to new ideas and new knowledge is what is needed to learn. Experimenting, seeking out new knowledge is even better. You can be successful and see an even better way to do things and learn from it. This … Continue reading
How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted
Often when learning about Deming’s ideas on management, lean manufacturing, design of experiments, PDSA… people become excited. They discover new ideas that show great promise to alleviate the troubles they have in their workplace and lead them to better results. … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Innovation, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, Process improvement, Psychology, Quality tools, Systems thinking
Tagged continual improvement, culture, curiouscat, Deming, leadership, lean management, lean six sigma, management tools, managing people, Popular, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, uncategorized
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Annual Performance Reviews Are Obsolete
Sam Goodner, the CEO of Catapult Systems, wrote about his decision to eliminate the annual performance appraisal. the most critical flaw of our old process was that the feedback itself was too infrequent and too far removed from the actual … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, IT, Management, Performance Appraisal
Tagged Data, feedback, in-process measures, managing people, Performance Appraisal
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Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock
I have never understood why players don’t lateral the ball out of bounds to stop the clock in pro or college football in the USA. If time is running out and the player is tackled in bounds the clock keeps … Continue reading
Change How Your Business Changes
[They seem to have broken the webcast so I have delete it. How sad it is how poor a job well financed organizations to at maintaining what they put online.] John Kotter believes technology and globalization are requiring us to … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Innovation, webcast
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Frugal Innovation
First break all the rules The device is a masterpiece of simplification. The multiple buttons on conventional ECGs have been reduced to just four. The bulky printer has been replaced by one of those tiny gadgets used in portable ticket … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, India, Innovation, quote
Tagged Creativity, disruptive innovation, Economics, Innovation, purpose, quote, simplicity
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Net Neutrality, Policy, Economics and Intelligent Engineering
I believe net neutrality should be championed to prevent decay of the usability of the internet. It seems to me internet connectivity is a natural monopoly that economic theory says should be a regulated monopoly. Smart countries have invested in … Continue reading →