Optimizing Data-to-Learning-to-Action: The Modern Approach to Continuous Performance Improvement for Businesses

© Steven Flinn 2018

Steven FlinnOptimizing Data-to-Learning-to-Actionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3531-7_2

2. Roots of a New Approach

Steven Flinn¹ 

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Brenham, TX, Brenham, Texas, USA

 

New ideas are invariably rooted in prior concepts—very often combinations of prior concepts. And for synergistic combinations to be developed, the prior concepts often first need to be generalized or extended so that they can be flexibly recombined into something for which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. So it is with the optimizing data-to-learning-to-action approach. In its case, it is primarily rooted in three fields of management science:

• Process improvement

• Theory of constraints

• Decision science

And in each of these fields, the path to our new ...