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Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Idea to Value

I already told you about their excellent episode on Disruptive Innovation. The classic other example is Lean Manufacturing spearheaded by companies like Toyota with their Toyota Management System. Today I want to highlight another great episode on a topic I learned a lot more about: Taylorism. What is Taylorism?

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Frameworks by definition are loose scaffolding that provides structure, guidelines, and playbooks versus prescriptive processes found in methodologies. Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). not a methodology.

LEAN 76
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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Frameworks by definition are loose scaffolding that provides structure, guidelines, and playbooks versus prescriptive processes found in methodologies. Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). not a methodology.

LEAN 40
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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

Sometimes the problem is compatibility with legacy systems, but there are also skills gaps to overcome, decisions about how much tech you need and where to apply it, and coping with business disruption or temporary lags in productivity. These guidelines regulate how companies gather, use, and store information.

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Leveraging Venture Building for Long-Term Returns

Innov8rs

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. How do we separate the disruptive venture from the delivery of core business P&L?

Agile 40
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The 5 Jobs to Address Uncertainty

Moves the Needle

The increased complexity and endless disruptions of the modern world brought on by the transition to the digital age means uncertainty is everywhere. Some, design thinking, human centered design, or lean startup. New guidelines, rules of engagement, funding, hiring and so on, help create the culture of learning mode.

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

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