Skip Prichard

APRIL 21, 2025

It touches marketing, legal, operations, sales, finance. reward curiosity and initiative Someone on your finance team builds a new AI model to forecast trends. I often ask: How could AI make this faster or better? That one question reframes the conversation. It touches everyone in every department. Innovation requires oxygen.

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Organization Leadership Compliance Learning-by-Doing 69

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. Edwards Deming, a renowned systems specialist, observed: “Ninety-four percent of problems are caused by the system — 6 percent by the workers.”

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Innovation Engineering System How To 57

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success.

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Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28