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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades. That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. Leapfrogging has been around for a long time. landline phones.

TQM 83
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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades. That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. Leapfrogging has been around for a long time. landline phones.

TQM 82
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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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Treat Everything as a Case Study

Harvard Business Review

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? You develop the Case Method third eye. Would the "Everything is a case study" view of the world have helped Eastman Kodak executives think through digital technologies earlier?