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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

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Capturing the Innovation Mindset at Bally Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". Perhaps worst of all, they are forced to abandon old approaches that worked.

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Feedback Without Measurement Won’t Do Any Good

Harvard Business Review

Our expanding abilities to digitally, visually and pervasively self-monitor will transform how on-the-job feedback gets defined, developed, and delivered. These technologies and innovations make creating cultures of accountability more practical and transparent.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.” Learning fast and slow.