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disciplined and rigorous process.
Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
Disruption takes know-how, which has to be grown into an organization. That is why this book focuses on work design.
Carol Sanford • The Regenerative Business
As W. Edwards Deming is also credited with observing, every process is perfectly designed to deliver the results it gets. If we believe that innovation is messy and imperfect and unknowable, we build processes that operationalize those beliefs. And that’s what many companies have done: unwittingly designed innovation processes that perfectly churn
... See moreKaren Dillon • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
A common rule we should always try to heed is to detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest-value stage possible.
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
offering both support and challenge to people's existing views and positions.
Mike Pedler • Action Learning for Managers
Eventually, this group of ideas formed the core of the now world-famous Toyota Way: •Kaizen: continuous improvement (predating Shewhart but perhaps inspired by Sakichi reading Henry Ford’s book). •Jidoka: the machine stops when there’s a problem. •Andon cord: any worker can stop the assembly line when there’s a problem. •Go to gemba:** the supervis
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Once you have settled upon a promising archetype, it still remains to convert your understanding to strategy. Where do you intervene? How do you redesign or reengineer the system? How do you move from your diagnosis to a prescription?
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Getting consensus on some key aspects of the history can be insightful.