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Best Practices are dead. Adopting Promising Practices

Rapid BI

Many best practices come as universal and standardized practices maybe within a specific industry as for example PRINCE2, MSP, PMBOK and in other fields TQM, JIT, BPR, CSR, 360, or all the best practices connected to the -ing words – as for […]. Think about it just for a moment – what is a best practice?

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen." 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. By all means, choose a name and stick with it.