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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 06:03am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4032 of 4045)

Innovation (1)

The seven steps for 'lightening strategies for innovation' / Zangwill

STEP

1. Make innovation the strategy

innovation improves efficiency $cost$down$ to the extent that strategy is reshaped

Develop foundation competencies - knowledge & technology; create new corporate culture, planning, institute best practices (benchmarking)

To half product development time and cost lesson fumbles of 'rework, changes, delays, bottlenecks , admin delays, approval waits'

Produce products people 'want'

Innovation should make 'big picture' & 'total business picture' sense

involves co-operative inhouse communication re marketing/engineering/manufacturing with parallel processing

systematic analysis enables

lchic - 06:05am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4033 of 4045)

Looking more closely at step four:

wrt MD if the 'customer/client' were interpreted as the receiver of the product ... then what market research has been conducted to determine if the folks who 'get' eg 'the cluster bombs' are getting them to the exact design and intensity required ?!

lchic - 06:07am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4034 of 4045)

Looking more closely at step four:

wrt MD if the 'customer/client' were interpreted as the receiver of the product ... then what market research has been conducted to determine if the folks who 'get' eg 'the cluster bombs' are getting them to the exact design and intensity required ?!

Would step seven;

continuous improvement be then analysed simply as

No Thanks!

lchic - 06:14am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4035 of 4045)

Looking at the seven steps wrt an innovately improved approach to reading --- (Teens and Prisoners - not having grasped by conventional disorganised method) then:

1. Innovation is the high frequency word approach.

2. Delivered by those trained to methodology.

3. Streamline approach re materials, delivery method and target clients.

4. Build the program to meet the 'unmet needs' of the client.

5. Develop re 'big picture delivery' with matching business strategy in place.

6. Design pre-reading product

7. Subject it to feedback for continuous improvement

Note the Deming influences throughout the above.

lchic - 06:20am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4036 of 4045)

Raising the right question at the right time is the skill of the creative facilitator - Kao

kalter.rauch - 06:27am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4037 of 4045)
Earth vs <^> <^> <^>

......or the clever obstructionist...isn't that right, lchic?!?!?

lchic - 06:28am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4038 of 4045)

Obstructionists raise the wrong question at the wrong time!

lchic - 06:31am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4039 of 4045)

p.s. No such thing as a 'clever obstructionist' ... isn't that right moniker-Muddle?!

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