TABLE OF CONTENTS "A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system."
W. Edwards Deming , American statistician, 1900 1993
There is a link between decisions, inventions, and innovation. In fact, this link was so simple I almost missed it. A good decision management process allows the overall process to progress to the next step, phase, or milestone, at the right time and with the right mixture of elements. It primes the next stage so that it is set for success. Decision management allows any innovation that occurred in step B to flourish, take root, and become part of the baseline prior to going to step C. This is the Innovation Lifecycle, a blending of business and engineering by phase throughout the entire organization. It also leads us to the next I-Factor:
I-Factor 3: Innovation must be constant and everywhere in your process.
Perhaps the decision-making process is not always linear. However, it is impossible for innovation of any sort, process or product, to be a benefit to the organization if it is compromised by ineffective decisions or, worse and more common, by a lack of integrated decisions. Companies, families, and people in general are consistently hamstrung by the inability to make decisions. Even the most basic decisions often paralyze people and organizations. Worse yet, most decisions are nonintegrated.
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