When you are looking include companies that have adopted Deming ideas.
There is very little new in Senge's approach other than the diagrams to
help us think about systems and perhaps some emphasis. Companies adopting
Deming have been learning and improving for decades now.
Senge's writing is more clear and more interesting but underneath it is
very much the same ideas.
Gene
At 07:49 AM 9/9/97 PDT, you wrote:
>I'd like to know if any scholarly articles exist that document putting LO
>principles into practice and measure the results.
>
>I'm in the process of writing my thesis and I need some journal articles
>for the literature review. I intend to document the impact LO principles
>can have by using a team based project here at Intel that has generated
>significant results in increasing consistency from shift to shift. We
>have used a combination of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations model to
>introduce change into the organization, and LO disciplines to produce the
>results. It should make an interesting paper.
>
>Any help you can provide would be deeply appreciated. Of course, anyone
>who has an interest in this project is welcome to contact me.
>--
>
>Hal H Steinbeigle <Hal_H_Steinbeigle@ccm.rr.intel.com>
Eugene Taurman
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