The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"; An Employee Handbook on Innovation. Hard Proof From the NASA/JPL Pathfinder Team on How Limitations Can Guide You to Breakthroughs
Pritchett & Associates, Inc., 1998. Trade paperback. [6], 84, [6] pages. Illustrations (color). Price Pritchett is a business advisor, speaker, and author specializing in mergers, culture, and organizational change. In 1974, he founded the Dallas-based Pritchett & Associates (now PRITCHETT, LP), the first firm in the U.S. to specialize in merger integration strategy. Pritchett’s work in mergers and change management spawned a popular series of small, tightly written handbooks covering an array of topics including mergers, large scale change, leadership, culture, plus personal and organizational performance. There's a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less money. Actually, "improvement" per se isn't too hard to come by with all of today's technological advancements. The tricky part comes in doing things faster, better, and cheaper all at the same time. That takes creativity. Ingenuity. Innovation. To help your employees grow in this regard, they need role models. Good examples. It helps greatly to see living proof of "faster-better-cheaper" in action. The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper" provides that proof, and breaks it down into 13 high-impact guidelines your employees can use to drive your organization to spectacular success. Co-authored with Brian Muirhead, Flight Systems Manager of the JPL Mars Pathfinder Team, this book shows how a small group of dedicated people-tapping into the spirit of ingenuity and innovation-proved "faster-better-cheaper" works in deep space as well as it does on Earth. Most important, the book draws the "faster-better-cheaper" business messages out of this intriguing story, and shows your employees how to apply them in your organization. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: NASA, Space Exploration, Innovation, Mars Pathfinder, Handbook, Technological Breakthrough, Creativity, Improvisation, Stretch Goals, Problem-Solving
ISBN: 0944002749
[Book #74772]
Price: $27.50