Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Research finds that just 5 to 15 percent of innovations are successful at large companies. Most business leaders would have greater odds of success if they went to a Las Vegas casino and gambled their innovation investment on one big bet. The importance of technology ownership is significant. Patent filings in the U.S.

Innovation 57

Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Much of my work focuses on involving people in activities and decisions about their work and how it will change as the technology they use changes. Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. How did I figure this out?

Project 28

Project Deming Root Cause Analysis RACI 28

Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. What matters is how you operate. You cannot expect to achieve success by adopting an individual component of an interdependent system of management. Point 4 in W.

Long-term 28

Long-term Deming Cooper System 28

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Edwards Deming cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” To improve your practices you can see what works for others and then abstract the principles for that success and then determine how to adopt those principles to your situation. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

Examples 28

Examples Deming Software System 28

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. the company increases profitability and stays in business; and. the number of jobs increases.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Consider China’s Tencent.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.

Six Sigma 13

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 13