How to Know When the Old Models Don’t Work Any More

It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop

As Malcolm Gladwell and other business writers have found, it is entirely possible to write a compelling article around a rather obvious point, and still hold the reader’s attention. As an example I draw your attention to this article, titled “Why Corporate Innovation Is So Hard.”

The article was obviously written by a communications master because it has an attractive title that seems to address an intractable problem—and suggest an answer. It’s also based on a premise that seems inescapable: Too many companies fail to innovate because they trust their existing understanding and the existing perceptions of the way the world and the market work, while missing key signals that a disrupter finds, interprets, and implements.

…

Want to continue?

By logging in you agree to receive communication from Quality Digest. Privacy Policy.

Create a FREE account

Forgot My Password

Comments

Lean Six Sigma Canaries

What are Lean Six Sigma's canaries?

U.S. Economy shifted from a manufacturing to a service economy. 80% of all U.S. businesses are now services. Manufacturing is only 11%.
Like IBM and Apple, the economy shifted from physical to digital products.
Manual quality analysis is now done affordably and accurately by computer software (e.g., QI Macros).

What does this mean? It means that:

We no longer need to spend weeks teaching people how to calculate formulas and learn decision trees to do Six Sigma analysis.
People can now learn the essence of Lean Six Sigma for services in a matter of hours.
We can borrow from Agile methods to accelerate results from Lean Six Sigma.

Learn more about Agile Lean Six Sigma here: https://www.qimacros.com/pdf/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf

[link removed by moderator]

Start creating a Hassle-Free America. Start creating a Hassle-Free World.