{"id":174,"date":"2008-02-26T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-02-26T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T22:57:13","slug":"business-process-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Business Process Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all innovation has to produce sexy products that create some sort of techno-fetish lust (disclaimer : I&#8217;m typing this on an Apple MacBook Pro&#8230;).  Innovation at the process level has the potential to return significant value, as detailed in an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/122\/artery-heal-thyself.html?page=0%2C1\">Feb issue of Fast Company<\/a> about how Abbott &#8211; a medical devices manufacturer &#8211; sped up the process to develop new ideas for stents:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The researchers didn&#8217;t want to lose themselves and their work in the bureaucracy of a big organization like Abbott, so their lab remained in Santa Clara, California, far away from Abbott&#8217;s Chicago-area headquarters. To speed up research, they reorganized the assembly-line process and connected the designers&#8217; computers directly to lasers to cut the lag time between design and manufacturing. <strong>Abbott ultimately slashed the time it took to make a new design from months to weeks, then to just one day; to date, the company has designed and manufactured some 300 different iterations of Absorb<\/strong>. By reducing the time it took to design, &#8220;we didn&#8217;t need the first one to be right,&#8221; Capek says. &#8220;We can have one or two failures and still beat our schedule.&#8221; He hopes to roll out this production process to other areas within Abbott.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all innovation has to produce sexy products that create some sort of techno-fetish lust (disclaimer : I&#8217;m typing this on an Apple MacBook Pro&#8230;). Innovation at the process level has the potential to return significant value, as detailed in an article in the Feb issue of Fast Company about how Abbott &#8211; a medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}