[The most popular strategies companies use to save money also kill innovation](https://work.qz.com/1134910/six-sigma-and-other-popular-management-strategies-kill-innovation/)

An interesting take on business process improvements such as Lean and Six Sigma. It suggests that while such process improvements improve reliability, they also make innovation plummet. Moreover, the effects are difficult to spot because they take so long to emerge.

> Innovation requires different ways of doing things, and this is exactly what this system ends. But they don’t tell you that in the ISO9000 handbook, do they?