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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. In addition, larger companies have had to spend many times the acquisition costs for these systems in order to implement and maintain them. landline phones.

TQM 83
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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. In addition, larger companies have had to spend many times the acquisition costs for these systems in order to implement and maintain them. landline phones.

TQM 82
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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.