Comments for The Business Excellence Institute https://businessexcellence.org Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Comment on Brexit through the excellence prism by Shaojian Cao https://businessexcellence.org/brexit-through-the-excellence-prism/#comment-5 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:17:05 +0000 https://businessexcellence.org/brexit-through-the-excellence-prism/#comment-5 “Neither side put forward a clear, inspiring and inclusive vision for the future”, that is correct.

A referendum is a democratic tool that can be used to select decision makers (be it a president, party, or government), rather than making decisions.

Try to imagine holding a global referendum about “shall we earth human beings actively contact alien intelligent beings”. A majority of people would be making an unknown decision, which only less than 0.01% of them might understand “what” it is about, “how” it will be done, and “what” will be happen consequently. It turns out that the powerful media influences people. This is not democracy, its gambling.

]]> Comment on To RoboBee or Not to RoboBee by Matt https://businessexcellence.org/to-robobee-or-not-to-robobee/#comment-3 Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:51:29 +0000 https://businessexcellence.org/to-robobee-or-not-to-robobee/#comment-3 I agree, Shaojian – the “get your thinking caps on” ending applies to finding a practical use for robobees as much as to finding a solution to the problem we face of the decline in real bees. My concern is I’ve seen a significant number of organisations implementing “innovation” as the next “flavour of the month”. Without a clear direction and focus, they’re not only doomed to fail but also risk disengaging employees (as they’ve been asked to “contribute ideas” then nothing happens). Nylon was developed within DuPont’s highly successful polymer program, who had the knowledge, imagination, funding and expertise not only to create innovative new products (including rayon and neoprene) but to identify potential uses then successfully commercialise them. If it hadn’t been part of a structured program with clear direction, nylon would have remained a blob of “white elastic paste” waiting for someone else to work out what to do with it.

]]> Comment on To RoboBee or Not to RoboBee by Shaojian Cao https://businessexcellence.org/to-robobee-or-not-to-robobee/#comment-2 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:20:25 +0000 https://businessexcellence.org/to-robobee-or-not-to-robobee/#comment-2 There are two types of innovation: starts from a problem and looking for a solution; and starts from a technique and looking for the best application.
When nylon was initially invented, no one knows that it cold be used for lady silk stockings, and parachute cord.
The question is, most organizations have not enough resource to do the second innovation by their own effort, so organizations should monitor any newly evolved technique, evaluate how it and its trend will impact organization’s industry and take action.

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