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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. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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Iterative Customer Focus

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming (1952). Put it on the market. Test it in service; through market research, find out what the user thinks of it, and why the non-user has not bought it. Like many of Deming’s ideas the idea of iterative customer focus can seem too simple to be very powerful. Edward Deming. … New Way.

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The 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell

QAspire

Add to this, the challenges of hyper-competitive landscape, organization cultures, shortage of talent and agility to move swiftly and the challenge of innovation compounds. search), 20% toward adjacent markets (i.e. and 10% on completely new markets (i.e. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. 14 Deming principles. 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. Deming System of Profound knowledge. Marketing mix.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

. “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” shows that nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are relatively social skill-intensive — and it argues that high-skilled, hard-to-automate jobs will increasingly demand social adeptness. labor force over the past three decades.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.