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High-involvement innovation through continuous improvement
John Bessant,Sarah Caffyn +1 more
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In this article, the authors present a framework for continuous improvement in all aspects of the business and identify a series of levels of CI performance and the blocks and enablers associated with them.Abstract:
Continuous improvement (CI) in all aspects of the business is essential for meeting the challenge of today’s turbulent environments One increasingly popular strategy for enabling continuous improvement is through mobilising a high level of involvement of the workforce in sustained incremental problem-solving Although the potential benefits of such high involvement innovation are considerable, implementing programmes of this kind is not easy This paper reports on a five year research programme exploring implementation issues in CI and presents a framework model for the development of CI which draws upon extensive case study work In particular, it identifies a series of levels of CI performance and the blocks and enablers associated with themread more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment, including both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.
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The Knowledge Creating Company
TL;DR: The Japanese companies, masters of manufacturing, have also been leaders in the creation, management, and use of knowledge-especially the tacit and often subjective insights, intuitions, and ideas of employees as discussed by the authors.
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Out of the Crisis
TL;DR: Deming's theory of management based on the 14 Points for Management is described in Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982 as mentioned in this paper, where he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.
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The Constitution of Society.
Mario D. Zamora,Anthony Giddens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a continuously conveyed series of uniformly dimensioned panels of thin sheet material are counted and stacked from the bottom against an abutment edge of a stationary but rotatable cam plate.