R03 Competition

Organizations should always try to proactively stay ahead of the competition, or at least keep up with it.

If you are responding rather than leading, you may be forced into hasty and ill-advised actions.

You don't always have to do a bunch of R&D, you just need to be aware of and make use of ongoing general developments.

If you don't keep learning, growing, and improving, your competitors probably will.

If you aren't actively trying to grow and improve, you've created a job and not a career (or a dynamic organization).

Your main competitor should be yourself!

Introduction
01: Overview		02: Who Am I and How Do I Work?
Reactive Drivers
01: Repair and Replace 02: End of Life		03: Imposed By Competition 04: Legal or Regulatory Change
Proactive Approaches
01: New Technology 02: Automation 03: Standardization and Modularization 04: Rearrangement and Streamlining 05: Lean and Six Sigma 06: Profiling		07: Simplification 08: Entirely New Solution 09: General Technical Solution 10: Improved Management Techniques 11: Improved Training and Procedures 12: Improvement of the Working Environment
Considerations
01: Internal vs. External Customer 02: Standard vs. Open-Ended Solutions		03: Incremental Improvement vs. The Big Kill 04: Build New vs. Modify Existing