Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?
The impression that Japan’s quality from borrowed ideas out of the practice of quality lesson of Dr. Deming and Lean Six Sigma appears to be misleading. The reality is far…
History & Observations
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Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman
Upon the sale of 400 million Walkman music players, what happened to it? Why did the Walkman become obsolete? Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are…
Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation
The challenge for winning with Innovation is not about generating a Flow of Ideas and engaging in random experimentation. Instead, the challenge is systematically ferreting out value from the market…
Third Industrial Revolution—software & data
Unlike the past two industrial revolutions, innovations have been unfolding in the software and information space driving the third industrial revolution. The Transistor is the technology core. Continued progression of…
Second Industrial Revolution in Perspective
This writeup articulates the 2nd industrial revolution as the unfolding of creative waves around a set of emerging technology core
First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves
How does an industrial revolution form? Despite the long history of the human race, why did the first industrial revolution take place so late? Does it mean that prior to…
Pre-industrial Age Seeded Industrial Revolutions
It may be surprising to many of us that pre-industrial age seeded industrial revolutions. For example, the hero engine or aeolipile invented in the 1st century AD is the precursor…
Design Thinking for Innovation
Design thinking for Innovation is more than innovating completely new products and experimenting with them in the market. Instead, it is about systematically generating ideas from strategic areas for nurturing,…
Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern
The magical emergence and evolution of Walkman to iPod is the outcome of applying clear thinking in generating ideas and profiting from them. There are underlying patterns beneath the magical…
Frugal Innovation and Jugaad—slow lane?
Despite promises, neither frugal innovation nor Jugaad offers us any novel approach of offering scalable growth path to the quality of living standards
Making, Reengineering, and Reinnovation
Making, reengineering and renovation deserve careful investigation to figure out their merits in developing sustainable as well as self-growing industrial economy
Sustainable Development through Industrial Revolutions
Industrial revolutions are key for offering us products for improving our quality of living standards. However, the consumption of those products depletes our fixed stock of resources and damages the…