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Innovation Diffusion Models
I have been thinking about technology adoption and penetration a great deal lately. Technology emergence and adoption happens all the time in the general population, but I came across a model new to me that captures features that I feel … Continue reading
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Continuous Integration to improve Agile Process
We all know that we want more continuous integration, and that flexibility needs to be increased in the environment. But how does one do it and what is the median in the wider setting? Tweet
Organizational Change Models
Nilofer Merchant writes a series on how business models have not sufficiently changed in response to social-era changes. Tweet
Agile Portfolio Management
Rally has been starting a series looking at agile applied to enterprise portfolio management. The first installment was an interview with Eric Ries on his book The Lean Startup which I found a very interesting discussion and worth your while … Continue reading
Strategic Grief and How To Innovate Out Of It
A neat piece on the five stages of strategic grief and how to leverage it to get into innovating out of the problem. The five stages are detailed: denial, anger, rationalization, depression and through to acceptance, when the organization can … Continue reading
Four simple techniques for Kaizen
Eri Swager was a system engineer at Toyota and gave four nice, simple (that being the key), low tech techniques for implementing Kaizen in anyone’s workflow. Tweet
Innovation-Haiku – It’s better to explore than to grumble
Do fresh ideas in your organization get killed by going through too many checks and balances before they reach senior management able to say “let’s go with that and try it.” This results, often, in the ideas being generalized and … Continue reading
Lean should be thought about improving productivity, not reducing costs
A colleague came along and asked how much Lean methodologies can save the organization. The motivation for the question is clear enough, but rather than simply answer it, one must still fight the good fight and try to shift the … Continue reading
More G haters, now Google has failed to innovate
The trolls have been coming out over G+, but this was from an unexpected quarter. Tweet
3 factors for process improvement in the org
An interesting article on what is needed to improve processes in an organization from all levels. It draws on Toyota and other firms’ experiences and I note it here as a reference. Tweet