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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.”