<p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">There's a bit of a discrepancy in how you use innovation in your continuous improvement efforts. On one hand, there's a general philosophy that you should not use unproven technology in your processes.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">On the other hand, Lean practitioners often encourage you to have a bias for action, meaning you should start making changes before you are certain what the end state might be, or you should go into a project knowing that trial and error will be a big part of the improvement process.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">In this episode of 'Ramblings of a Continuous Improvement Coach', I talk about how to reconcile this split in philosophy.</span></p><p></p><div class="iframe-wrapper"><iframe src="https://iframe.mediadelivery.net/embed/431082/4528d39e-e0e1-49dd-8302-1bca0971ff67?autoplay=false" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p></p>

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