Like many areas of science and technology, there are some big ideas, but the benefits are realised by a series of step-by-step improvements.
"The best way to start on real, bipartisan reform would be to scrap those bills and focus on the kind of step-by-step improvements that will lower health care costs and expand access".
3. Adopt a global sourcing model to reduce costs, while simultaneously making step-by-step improvements to organizational productivity.
Both in the automotive and in the motorcycle fields the requirement of step-by-step improvements for optimizing the engine cycle is still present.
We found it unwise to lock the UXC model, but instead experimented with it by iterating it every year along the dimensions we found useful for successful, step-by-step improvements in effective collaboration (e.g., the collaboration tools used, the management model applied, project scheduling).
Among his best-known works were the "Quality Control Handbook" in 1951, the first mathematically rooted textbook on product quality, now entering its sixth edition, and "Managerial Breakthrough" in 1964, which described a step-by-step improvement process that inspired the Six Sigma and lean manufacturing philosophies.
This paper describes a step-by-step improvement process of a predictive connectionist module applied in the context of Video on Demand Service Providers (VDSP) applications.
You can see the step-by-step improvement of the OS (by several companies, more like Linux-compatibles today than anything else) at this Wikipedia page, and a more succinct history can be found here.
Radical innovation is understood as a totally new product, process, marketing method or organisational method, in line with the Schumpeterian definition (Schumpeter, 1934 [2012]), while an incremental innovation is understood as a step-by-step improvement of existing solutions (Fagerberg et al. 2005).
