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Next Practices
April 8, 2010
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
-Sydney Lumet
-Sydney Lumet
"Companies identify best practices, particularly those of market leaders, and try to implement them. Such benchmarking has a role to play in business, but I'm not exactly a fan of the process. It may allow enterprises to catch up with competitors, but it won't turn them into market leaders. Organizations become winners by spotting big opportunities and inventing next practices....
"Next practices are all about innovation: imagining what the future will look like; identifying the mega opportunities that will arise; and building capabilities to capitalize on them....
"If you look for ways to develop next practices, opportunities abound. In fact, executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination."
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Displaying All 2 CommentsODU Child Development Center
Norfolk, VA, United States
Albert Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge." Best Practice needed to imagined first before it became a standard for early childhood care. I think that best practice needs to be considered as a starting point and standard by which all facilities should operate. After that, scaffolding of this knowledge should occur with which "next practice" or "our imagination" should be encouraged and fostered.
:)Heather
Campus and Community Children\\\'s Center
Fredonia, NY, United States
I am concerned that "next practice" gives permission to not strive for best practice. Why do research on what is best for children and families and then not strive for it? Especially in our field where we struggle to find and retain great staff. I think some programs would find this license to change to change for convenience versus quality.
Just my %.02 . Generally I love Exchnage everyday.
Judy
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