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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

Jeffrey Phillips
Thu, 06/27/2019 - 12:03
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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.”

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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.

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Submitted by knowwareman on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 23:04

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

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