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Five Simple Heuristics for Instant Innovation
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Continue reading →: Five Simple Heuristics for Instant InnovationI just returned from Saul Kaplan’s 9th Business Innovation Factory (BIF-9) Summit in Providence, Rhode Island — where, to my blissful surprise, I had just as much of a transformational experience as I had at Burning Man this year. I love it when so many conscious people gather together and…
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Continue reading →: When Your Ideas are Met With Resistance
Has anyone ever opposed your ideas? Punctuated your plans? (This could be something you’ve experienced at work, or just in the regular course of life.) Has anyone encouraged you (subtly or not so subtly) to remain entrenched in the status quo? To not “rock the boat”? Yeah, me too. Usually,…
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Training in the Sharing Economy
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Continue reading →: Training in the Sharing EconomyPaul Borawski’s August question to the ASQ Influential Voices is personal: Are you continuously improving yourself through training? The subtext of this question is, of course, to explore the extent to which companies are currently supporting – and encouraging – training about quality-related topics, tools, and techniques as a form…
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Continue reading →: Making Quality Standards a Collaborative Game
Hello again! I haven’t written in a while – suffice it to say, productivity cannot be achieved without sound mind, heart, and body. I’ll write more about that theme during the upcoming year, because I’ve decided to make personal health my top priority for a while – and explore the ripple…
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Peripheral Visioning
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Continue reading →: Peripheral VisioningSomehow, some way, over the course of too many years growing up staring into a computer screen — my eyesight became much-less-than-perfect. Only I didn’t know it. I thought everyone lived in a slightly hazy, cloudy world, where all the colors naturally blended into postmodern mosaics of distant trees and…
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Continue reading →: Quality vs. Innovation: How Much Structure Do You Need? A SAD Lesson
One of the things I think about a lot is how to balance the structures provided by quality systems and standards, with the divergent thinking and creativity that’s necessary for innovation and continuous transformation. I’m not the only one thinking about this, it seems! Just this week, Steve Denning published a great article…
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Since 2008, I’ve been sharing insights and expertise on Digital Transformation & Data Science for Performance Excellence here. As a CxO, I’ve helped orgs build empowered teams, robust programs, and elegant strategies bridging data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)… while building models in R and Python on the side. In 2025, I help leaders drive Quality-Driven Data & AI Strategies and navigate the complex market of data/AI vendors & professional services. Need help sifting through it all? Reach out to inquire – check out my new book that reveal the one thing EVERY organization has been neglecting – Data, Strategy, Culture & Power.
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