{"id":119,"date":"2007-06-11T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-06-11T18:06:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:06:52","slug":"processes-vs-innovation-at-3m-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Processes vs innovation at 3M (BusinessWeek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_24\/b4038406.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories\">fascinating insight<\/a> into the old, new and then the new-old (stay with me here) cultures around innovation at 3M.  If you are familiar with the story of the company that bought you Art Fry and the Post-It, this is still worth a read and looks at Six Sigma vs free thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Or, to put it another way &#8211; &#8220;How Six Sigma Black Belts Beat up all the free thinking and peace loving innovators.&#8221;   And before you comment &#8211; I know &#8211; it <em>would <\/em>make such a catchy film title.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/NussbaumOnDesign\/archives\/2007\/05\/post_13.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_nussbaumondesign\">Bruce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek has a fascinating insight into the old, new and then the new-old (stay with me here) cultures around innovation at 3M. If you are familiar with the story of the company that bought you Art Fry and the Post-It, this is still worth a read and looks at Six Sigma vs free thinking. Or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}