Agile represents a management breakthrough that has enabled software development teams to systematically achieve both disciplined execution and continuous innovation, something that was impossible to accomplish with 20th Century hierarchical bureaucracy.
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My own recent work in radical management distills, builds on and extends these principles, practices and values so that any organization can now achieve the elusive combination of disciplined execution and continuous innovation.
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The not so secret to gaining brand advantage is to be the first-to-do-it right and to keep it right by way of innovation and continuous assessment of what consumers find meaningfully different.
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.
As a leading global telecommunications solutions provider, Huawei abides by and respects third-party intellectual property rights (IPR) and strives for continuous innovation to maintain our leadership position.
The open source community also provides continuous quality control and is a great source of continuous innovation.
To thrive in this new world, GE must master the management principles needed for continuous innovation and delight customers.
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The winners in the rapidly changing world of manufacturing will be those firms that have mastered the agility needed to generate rapid and continuous customer-based innovation.
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Reflecting its continued focus on innovation and continuous improvements in customer service, NetJets plans to have all future fleet aircraft, including light cabin models, delivered from the factory with high speed Internet service.
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By creating a vision of a future that does not currently exist, developing a team of dedicated leaders who share this vision and can communicate it clearly, and being committed to continuous innovation, your vision can become a reality.
In essence, just as the Fortune 500 must relearn how to manage so as to generate continuous innovation, the health care system also needs to learn how to manage in a radically different way so as to generate reliable and affordable care through continuous innovation.
To compete successfully despite frequent and sudden change, firms have to foster the competencies that promote continuous innovation in both offerings and operations.
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Hard as it can be to swallow sometimes, this is what innovation, continuous improvement and free markets are all about.
Companies like Google, Apple, Costco, Amazon, Ikea and others like them are known for cultivating continuous innovation because it produces results.
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In the process, we learn how we too can radically transform the way work is managed so as to get the extraordinary benefits that flow from continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight.
Under his leadership, the Ultrasound division has delivered a continuous stream of innovation, expanded into new clinical applications and dramatically broadened global distribution to achieve an annual double-digit growth rate since 1995.
Final note: CATCH (the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health), the new (non-profit) Boston-based innovation initiative I recently co-founded with MGH Chief-of-Medicine Dennis Ausiello (who will lead the effort) and several others, seeks precisely this balance between potential and attained health.
Instead of focusing exclusively on short term gains and efficiency innovations, the very goal of the firm has to shift to delighting customers through continuous value-adding innovation.
Continuous success for operators in this space will require transformational strategies along with new value propositions, product innovation and perhaps even some mergers and acquisitions.
All you do is cluster the corn-oil units around biodiesel plants that use another money-saving GreenShift innovation: a "continuous base catalyst reaction" system that relies on a "proprietary process intensification and advanced separation technologies"--whatever those are.
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