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Currently, businesses are forced to be more innovative than ever
before. Organizations must be sensitive to global trends -- such as
digitization, globalization, and automation -- and at the same time
build resilience and flexibility to combat unexpected changes in
customer demand. The coronavirus pandemic is just the most recent
and pronounced example of this new-normal business necessity.
Amidst the disruption, many businesses are caught not knowing how
to proceed. How ought one pursue or achieve innovation for the
company? Are there different innovation strategies? Why might a
business leader choose one over the other? The Lean Innovation
Cycle addresses these concerns by introducing a new
multidisciplinary framework for both thinking about and pursing
innovation. By taking key concepts from the quality management
practices of Lean and Six Sigma, the framework augments these tools
and disciplines by incorporating other problem-solving and design
techniques, including Human-Centered Design. The result is a view
of innovation that many business leaders will find fits nicely into
their existing paradigm of strategy and operational discipline.
After the introduction of the framework, the book turns to
understanding the differences, advantages, and tradeoffs in
pursuing Lean Innovation in lieu of traditional, technologically
driven innovation approaches. To this end, the book considers
issues of sustainability, organizational strategy, and competitive
advantage. The result is a thought-provoking dialogue that informs
the reader about the key considerations of how best to pursue
innovation within their business and the business environment, as
well as the circumstances that might make one innovation strategy
more congruent to an organization's culture, goals, and objectives
than the other.
Currently, businesses are forced to be more innovative than ever
before. Organizations must be sensitive to global trends -- such as
digitization, globalization, and automation -- and at the same time
build resilience and flexibility to combat unexpected changes in
customer demand. The coronavirus pandemic is just the most recent
and pronounced example of this new-normal business necessity.
Amidst the disruption, many businesses are caught not knowing how
to proceed. How ought one pursue or achieve innovation for the
company? Are there different innovation strategies? Why might a
business leader choose one over the other? The Lean Innovation
Cycle addresses these concerns by introducing a new
multidisciplinary framework for both thinking about and pursing
innovation. By taking key concepts from the quality management
practices of Lean and Six Sigma, the framework augments these tools
and disciplines by incorporating other problem-solving and design
techniques, including Human-Centered Design. The result is a view
of innovation that many business leaders will find fits nicely into
their existing paradigm of strategy and operational discipline.
After the introduction of the framework, the book turns to
understanding the differences, advantages, and tradeoffs in
pursuing Lean Innovation in lieu of traditional, technologically
driven innovation approaches. To this end, the book considers
issues of sustainability, organizational strategy, and competitive
advantage. The result is a thought-provoking dialogue that informs
the reader about the key considerations of how best to pursue
innovation within their business and the business environment, as
well as the circumstances that might make one innovation strategy
more congruent to an organization's culture, goals, and objectives
than the other.
In contrast to the effortless ease with which human beings control
their limbs, the design of controllers for robotic manipulator arms
is a detailed, meticulous business. Motors controlling the arms
need to be started and stopped at just the right moment so that the
performance demanded by the user may be achieved at the end of a
complicated manoeuvre. And yet, the same user wishes to express the
task for the robot in the simplest possible terms without reference
to the minute details of control sequences that his task demands.
It is the design of such inter faces between man and machine that
is the subject of trus volume. Parent and Laurgeau develop the
subject in a direct and logical order. They first explain the
principles of maximal effort control which not only ensure that
motors are driven to provide high accuracy, but also that this
should be done with the least waste of energy and in the shortest
possible time. In this context, they describe the operation of
pneumatic logical devices that make rapid decisions at power levels
that exceed, by several orders, those that can be achieved with
electronic devices. They achieve this whilst keeping the reader
aware of the logical principles that are involved in the design of
master control units: the devices responsible for appropriate
actions being taken as a function of time."
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