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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it. Of the 40 methods spelled out by the TRIZ approach, 8 involve what we would term scarcity.