Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: October 5, 2007
Earlier this week my wife (who works with us sometimes) was at the Boston Knowledge Management Forum, where one of the trendy things to talk about was how six-sigma is now an dated old tool, useful in the manufacturing environment where systems are predictable, but not useful for complex systems…like managing a modern corporation.
Well…duh!
Part [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: June 13, 2007
I have just a bit more to say on this process vs. innovation issue, and then I’ll move on. (I have some thoughts on the Intel “comeback” reported by Forbes in their June 4th issue that I will be posting in the next few days.
While most of the Business Week article is very good, it [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: June 6, 2007
Many pundits argue that the current path to competitive advantage is by out-innovating the competition. This is as opposed to focusing on being more efficient than the competition. The unstated theory being that one of these two approaches is the strategy of success. A cursory review of business history shows that these two pendulum end-points [...]
