Measuring Cognitive Diversity: The Lean Six Sigma Leadership Symposium
At a pan-national symposium of Lean Six Sigma leaders, the Basadur Profile was offered to 79 delegates before a workshop. As the scatter diagram shows, most attendees have innovation styles that support solution development and implementation – the optimization and implementation stages of the innovation process.
Not surprisingly, these people are typically hired to make current processes more efficient and effective by removing costs and improving consistency. People who lead Lean Six Sigma initiatives are good at bringing about small and incremental organizational changes. We are not here to devalue these changes or innovations, as they often increase employee engagement, productivity, and profitability. In many legacy companies, even small incremental changes take work.
But when the search for short-term profitability isn’t accompanied by long-term visioning, a company’s future can be endangered. With few generators and conceptualizers, this group isn’t likely to create disruptive innovation or discontinuous change. When you consider that a majority of the companies in the current S&P 5000 Index didn’t exist 20 years ago, the significance of this problem is hard to ignore. “Innovate or stagnate” might be this scatter diagram’s inherent message.
What might you recommend to these delegates?
You’re an innovator, you just don’t know it yet!” Learn more about the Basadur Profile and how it measures cognitive diversity to support your team in achieving innovative results.
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