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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. First, some background information. 600 (or ~$13).

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A Round Up of My Writing in August 2010

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Thanks to Amit Agarwal (India’s first Professional Blogger at award winning Digital Inspiration blog) for listing QAspire Blog in Directory of Top Indian Blogs under ‘HR/Management/Business’ category. QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community). Check out the feature.

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The Pursuit of Getting It “First Time Right” (FTR)

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When we research or try to innovate, we essentially do that with the objective of learning. On a second thought, you can only innovate when you don’t have to worry about doing the routine stuff right. Unless you are in research and innovation where experimentation/exploration is the name of the game.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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Once you have these basics right, your efforts and investment on delighting your customers through various innovative and inclusive programs will yield the right returns. What is missing and how can you scale up to ensure consistency of delivery? What are the gaps that need to be filled? Thanks for sharing.

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Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

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To innovate and experiment. To be able to foresee things before they happen (pro-activity). To be able to offer deep insights and sound judgment. To be able to build/deliver quality consistently. To raise the bar. To be able to do more in less time. To bring about a positive change in people/organization through our work.

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Quality & Improvement: From “Experience” to “Advocacy”

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So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Check it out if you haven’t already !

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Quick Thoughts on Differentiation

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Some ways to build differentiation : Focus on unique area of work and be the best there or do the routine work very differently or have world-class processes/methodologies to deliver excellence or have world class people or have fantastic set of tools that enable you to be different or constantly innovate new ways of work to push the envelope.