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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. 11) Train your people to follow the procedures but also to propose improvements if they don’t work. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. Customers. 1) Create constancy of purpose. Voice of the customer. Lean startup MVP. Processes.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Believe it or not, at least 162 different answers have been proposed to that question. 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.