The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The first-generation of the learning organization reached its nadir with the continuous improvement movement launched by W.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Kaizen, the Japanese management practice of continuous innovation, can be applied to knowledge work.

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Kaizen Innovation Company Management 20

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Learning-by-Doing Technology 57

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix.

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Covey Deming Learning-by-Doing Six Sigma 69

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I'd been asked to run an innovation workshop for Procter & Gamble's R&D group because of a book I had written. While I disagreed with some parts, this was a fascinating glimpse into P&G's innovation aspirations. I immediately grasped that P&G's innovation vocabulary was far more important to my effectiveness than my own.

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 16

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Class 46

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. So should we abandon continuous improvement? Absolutely not!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean organizations engage every employee, regardless of the letters after their names, in improvement through Plan Do Study Adjust cycles and a Kaizen improvement process. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus. Many hands go up.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

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Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

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Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. Through an innovation excellence framework. Innovative companies create an environment that fosters the right balance between current and future with “and thinking.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. Giving managers more time to do deep thinking can unlock innovations that can have a significant impact on productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen." Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. No one has looked at things quite this way.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Though charmingly valuable, Kaizen and suggestion boxes are 20th-century productivity anachronisms. Twenty-first century smartphones and tablets create radically different expectations around workforce efficiency. Employees will increasingly need to automate their own jobs or get moved out.

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Kaizen Bottom-up Efficiency Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

"Offers" usefully blurred categorical and cultural distinctions between "product" and "service" innovation. The more people talked, the clearer it became: "offers" was simply a better word and organizing principle for generating more innovative innovation scenarios. Communication Innovation Leadership' Language matters.

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Ulrich Kaizen Competitive Advantage Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

They also need a methodical approach for making things better — a reliable approach for generating improvement and innovation. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery.

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Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement. Planning how to accomplish the change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

The manufacturer has since introduced quality techniques (" kaizen " events), as well as Lean strategy deployment methods and tools. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? Organizational malaise sets in on the inside, and then ripples outward, creating a subpar performance in the marketplace, customer frustrations and financial shortfalls.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

These technologies and innovations make creating cultures of accountability more practical and transparent. Organizations that care about Kaizen , or the process of continuous improvement, and facilitating effective feedback will make “accs” a way to make sure that their people have the power to (self) improve.

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Self-aware Kaizen Construction Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. That scares me. Incorporate New Ideas from the Ground.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 19, 2025

A Kaizen Approach to Market-Driven Innovation GUEST POST from Dr. Matthew Heim In todays competitive business environment, companies are under constant pressure to innovate, streamline processes, and improve product quality.

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Kaizen Products Productivity Management 93

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the past few weeks, three corporate innovation clients have moved to — or had their roles expanded to include — their company’s training function. As one remarked, perhaps ruefully, “Now I’ve got to get the people who actually do the work to innovate.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. Indeed, few creative ideas ever become innovative products or services. And yet too many managers see a lack of innovation in their companies and lament their teams’ “lack of creativity.” HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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