Replying to LO25652 --
A Korean colleague wrote to us about his question:
> >So, in MIS textbook, I learned about LO (Learning Organization). I can
> >understand what's the meaning of the LO just a little. But, it's not
> >enough to me. So, if you don't mind, can you send the example about LO's
> >application in company to me?
I doubt we can really help our Korean friend in this case. Please look for
your nearby 'examples'. ( On a very limited sense of LO, for example, more
than 10 years ago, ETRI of Korea decided to go for CDMA technology and the
decision might be right. This case is my 'guess', please see the Korean
small companies going for DSL now.)
I reminded my website visitors one of Dr. Deming's advices in the context
of GE as one of most admired company and the Chinese translation of' GE
Fieldbook' as 'Copying GE'.
'If anyone were to study without theory such a company, i.e., without
knowing what questions to ask, he would be tempted to copy the company, on
the pretext that " they must be doing some things right." To copy is to
invite disaster.' ( p. 36 from The New Economics by W. E. Deming; by the
way, one of best WED's stories is one furniture company tried to 'reverse
engineering' a famous brand of piano.)
Hanching Chung
http://www.deming.com.tw
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