The Quest for Innovation
An industry-wide search for the best improvement and innovation approaches
- Sarcastic and inspiring, from real stories to unbelievable fiction, a book to self-reflect on how process improvement is done.
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For an ever faster changing world, where short-term gains too often overweight long-term purposes. -
A wake-up call on how we look at innovation.
Attempting to overtake the competition, manufacturing companies apply different approaches to boost improvement and innovation. Follow the fictive and real stories on the quest for innovation to find out why some of these approaches fail and others do not.
The Scale of Success
Often, the scale of success is measured by how much operation has grown, quality improved, or cost and lead time reduced. Of course, these metrics are important. However, one metric, which is a little more challenging to grasp, holds the key to long-term success. It is the answer to a straightforward question:
"How much have you improved?"
The majority of literature on innovation is focused on the innovation of products and services to address new markets or better fulfill customer demands. This leads to the perception as if the duty for innovation lies with the product or service supplier. Truly innovative companies do innovation for themselves. They change products, and services just because they know there is a better way. These companies are constantly experimenting, failing, learning, and eventually succeeding.
"Companies that manage to keep the innovation in-house and build upon existing knowledge are likely to succeed in the long run."
"Companies that manage to keep the innovation in-house and build upon existing knowledge are likely to succeed in the long run."
Follow the Playful Quest for Innovation
About the Autor:
Ferdinand Huber has spent his professional life working as an industrial engineering manager and consultant for multinational companies leading manufacturing projects in a dozen countries.
“Corporate standards may seem complex and intimidating. I am convinced, however, that improvement is simple… so simple that everyone can do it. The idea of getting better every day is fascinating and the development of people is a lasting source of joy.”
“Corporate standards may seem complex and intimidating. I am convinced, however, that improvement is simple… so simple that everyone can do it. The idea of getting better every day is fascinating and the development of people is a lasting source of joy.”
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