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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. 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. landline phones.

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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. 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. landline phones.

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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.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.

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You Can’t Do Strategy Without Input from Sales

Harvard Business Review

But the disconnect between sales and strategy (in this case, a lack of strategy to deal with a technology that is redefining the market and customer behavior) is the hidden subtext of the book. Thomas is doing his best to maintain Xerox’s share in copiers. Even Dorsey, as great an observer as he is, misses it. this comeback.”

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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? Would the "Everything is a case study" view of the world have helped Eastman Kodak executives think through digital technologies earlier? It was a debate worth at least 40 miles.