Beyond Productivity – Competitiveness or Innovation? 245.0
In a telephone conversation, a dear friend gave a reaction to the series of posts that SYNTHESiST had on productivity – on Frederick Taylor, Six Sigma, Paul Krugman on competitiveness and McKinsey and design thinking. She mentions that they have moved beyond productivity to competitiveness as the higher goal. This post integrates my views on [...]
IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products, evolve from new insights found in social science research and in empirical practice. IDEO’s Design Thinking is one such clear and late stage innovation in the business’s search for continuous productivity improvement. Design Thinking’s success and arrival in the Philippines is evidenced by entry into local [...]
Six Sigma Raises Productivity to the Effective Limit 241.0
The productivity surge in American business from 1980 through 2000 was driven by innovations like Six Sigma. Motorola first innovated on Six Sigma in the late 1980s as a method to manage process variations for quality improvement in manufacturing that, linked with business strategy, ultimately yielded improved productivity in the whole business. In the 1990s. [...]
