The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change.

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Chief Technology Officer Competitive Advantage Agility Operations 65

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Maintaining an investment in such a dedicated learning environment for 15+ years is no small feat, especially with the challenges of the idiosyncrasies of the partner nations. I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates. Yet, what can be said of the limits to standardization?

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

We can have engineering work more closely with production. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate. They saw hourly workers deeply engaged in reviews of operational performance measures, solving complex problems.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. Software company Rite-Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art "innovation engine" to unearth the organization's hidden genius. New lines of business created via the innovation engine account for 20% of the company's total revenue.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid. Large organizations squander more human capability than they use.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8