Doug's TwitterJust watched an amazing video by Priscilla Petty called The Deming of America It’s straight talk from the master on what needs to be done to get America cranking again.
One thing that caught my attention was Deming’s refusal to work with P&G when they asked him to help them. He only worked with companies [...]
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The benefits of Open Innovation or as I call it Open Collaboration between inventors, companies, brands, distributors are clear.
The hard data — companies that openly collaborate realize as much as a tripling of innovation success rates, 85% improvement in R&D output and a 50% reduction in capital spending (P&G results).
The challenge is today in most [...]
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. …….The first step is transformation of the individual. This transformation is discontinuous. It comes from understanding of the system of profound knowledge. The individual, transformed, will perceive new meaning to his life, to events, [...]
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It’s amazing the difference three years has made in my perspective on innovation. In our day to day work – we often don’t realize how far our thinking has changed. Yesterday I spoke to the same group of manufacturers in Hartford Connecticut -that I spoke to three years ago. In the discussions afterwards I learned how far [...]
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W. Edwards Deming, the American Statistician who revolutionized Japanese manufacturing after World War II – was a stickler for understanding the purpose – of a meeting, a book or a process. In his classic book, Out of The Crises – he started each chapter with a paragraph on the purpose of the chapter. If I’d done [...]
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