CHAPTER 27

Route Map for Handling a Project

Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy

– Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

SYNOPSIS

Continual improvement project has to be handled according to a certain standard procedure. This helps to channelise the work in a systematic manner. This approach of standard procedure and systematic manner of proceeding with the work should neither be construed nor interpreted as regimentation of thinking. One is free to think and come up with various ideas. But all these things should proceed in a systematic manner so that the problem gets defined properly with specific goals, data needed to quantify/measure the problem are identified, data required to serve diverse purposes of assessing factors responsible ...

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