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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.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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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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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Today's Web 2.0

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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Today's Web 2.0

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". 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.)