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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

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Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants.

Consulting and Organizational Management

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Facilitation. Human Resources.

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Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

The organization is people and technologies, which are matched together to produce an outcome, a product or a service. Think of technology in the broadest sense: Technology=Methodology. It is about the steps we take to produce a finished product and we call that series of steps “a process.”. Think about an accounting firm.

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