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How consultants can help clients fail fast – to succeed quickly

Chartered Management Institute

The fast-paced and innovative nature of the tech sector necessitates rapid experimentation and adaptation. Entrepreneurs and startups embrace the mindset of failing fast to quickly test ideas, pivot where necessary, and optimise their products or services for the market.

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3 Tools for Streamlining Processes in Manufacturing

Strategy Driven

Manufacturing processes are complex and they often consist of multiple steps. So, in order to maximize profits, businesses have to find innovative ways to streamline these processes and reduce the time they take to complete. Manufacturing cloud – this can help you to create transparency through each process.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. Innovation Sandbox” was the term coined by C.K. To quote the late, great C.K.

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The Difference is the Point of Interaction

Mike Cardus

The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Improvement in decision making and problem solving leads to improved innovation and work of the team. The difference is where the manager and subordinate interact.

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Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains

Harvard Business Review

Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy's economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. Mark Graban.

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

Even today, when we extol the virtues of creativity and innovation, we still see bureaucratic job titles, inflexible roles, and standardized evaluation systems that generate anxiety instead of excitement and self-expression. They then experimented with transforming their own production line using the new techniques.