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The 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell

QAspire

Innovation is perhaps the most used word in corporate boardrooms today. 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. Moreover, innovation is not as simple as having fresh ideas and executing them well.

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Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System

Deming Institute

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. They used Deming’s ideas to turn around a company being crushed in the marketplace to one delighting their customers. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better. References.

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Adaptation of the 14 Points to Medical Service

Deming Institute

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Teach supervisors how to use the results of surveys of patients. Restructure training.

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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. How to apply the model. The table below shows how the 14 principles helped to frame the steps for each of the dimensions. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge.

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News Flash: Innovation Is No Longer Just a Specialist’s Job. Now Here’s How to Involve Your Whole Workforce Instead

Strategy Driven

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. What’s not understood is how to do it. That’s not the purpose of Innovation Engineering.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs?