Re: What's coming down the pike?

["Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Kathleen Parrott wrote:
> I've just been assigned a research project to determine what next big
> management initiative is coming down the pike.  The concepts of Lean and
> Value-Streaming processes have been around for a few years.  Six Sigma is
> still big.  Is there anything new and interesting beyond these in the
world
> of manufacturing or policies and procedures, specifically, you've heard
> about?  And do you have any suggestions on where I might look to become
more
> learned on any given subject?  Thanks.

Great question!  Here are some links (this list is by no means complete):

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/

These types of articles are sometimes featured at CNET:
http://news.com.com/2030-1069_3-1000661.html

Reengineering was widely considered to have been launched by Hammer's 1990
paper in the Harvard Business Review:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/hbr/hbr_home.jhtml

Practices revolving around "Making Offshoring Work" are likely to be big for
a while.

The J2EE platform has evolved its own baggage of methodologies which are
influential in all types of software development, not just Java:
http://java.sun.com/blueprints/guidelines/index.html

Mike O.





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