Those initiatives should go beyond the traditional approaches relying on benchmarking and continuous improvement.
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In this world, efficiency is considered important but subordinated to the values of delighting customers, transparency and continuous improvement.
Specifically, they preach innovation, integrity, respect for individual initiative, tolerance for honest mistakes, product quality and reliability, reward based on merit and continuous improvement.
From Japan we learned just in time inventory control, manufacturing quality control and continuous improvement, innovation in consumer electronics design, and an appreciation for sushi.
Efforts to put in place a new role for managers as enablers of self-organizing teams, new Agile methods of coordinating work, new values of trust and transparency and continuous improvement, and horizontal communications will inevitably fall foul of the prevailing mental model of how the C-suite expects the firm to work.
Mulally will continue leading the long-term strategic development of the One Ford plan and its continuous improvement.
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When combined with sophisticated analytic and financial control engines powered by companies such as Cloudability and Cloudyn that allow IT to monitor and develop strategies for Continuous Improvement and real-time redistribution of resources and spend, 2013 will be the year that the Cloud pays off.
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It will require a different goal (delighting the customer), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (Agile and dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
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The public, meantime, would be assured of continuous and measured improvement in the drilling methods being used.
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration.
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Ron started on the phone, but quickly rose to the top by his results and his approach to continuous improvement.
The reinforcement of the values of continuous improvement and radical transparency will be needed to achieve preeminence over efficiency.
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Hard as it can be to swallow sometimes, this is what innovation, continuous improvement and free markets are all about.
It will require a different goal (adding value for customers), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
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We operate our firm with a continuous improvement mentality and we believe this product is good for our clients as well as for our firm.
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Using basic best practices and continuous, data-driven improvement pays massive dividends.
Instead, it's energy and the environment, presenting an opportunity for continuous improvement.
Chile has a tradition of discussing the technical merits of its statistical data and their shortcomings, which leads to continuous methodological improvement.
Total Quality Management (TQM, ) Continuous Improvement (CI, ) and Six Sigma programs all have been glorified by companies hoping to improve product or service quality.
The simulated work environment, created by GM in 1999, is a way for workers to learn the concepts of continuous improvement, quality, workplace organization and standardized work processes.
The system provides a platform for continuous network improvement through the application of new and enhanced software development.
Continuous improvement requires strategic planning to set new objectives and work toward them.
"Previous generations of the Quintet have been deemed the best in their category and it is important that we take the necessary measures for continuous improvement, " said Paul Jacobs, CEO of Klipsch.
The company said it had seen a "continuous period of improvement" in its performance since December and added it was continuing to train and recruit drivers.
This book explains how the Japanese continuous-improvement philosophy of Kaizen can be applied to personal and business matters.
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