incremental

(adjective)

Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.

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Examples of incremental in the following topics:

  • Types of Organizational Change

    • There are three main categories of change: business process re-engineering, technological change, and incremental change.
    • Incremental change is a method of introducing many small, gradual (and often unplanned) changes to a project instead of a few large, rapid (and extensively planned) changes.
    • Another good example of incremental change is a manufacturing company making hundreds of small components that go into a larger product, like a car.
    • Improving the manufacturing process of each of these integral components one at a time to cut costs and improve process efficiency overall is incremental change.
    • Differentiate between business process re-engineering, technological change, and incremental change as the three main categories of organizational development

  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship

    • Incremental innovation is also largely recognized as a vital entrepreneurial pursuit.
    • The idea of incremental innovation is simple: large change is a byproduct of small innovations compounded with others.
    • Incremental innovators find ways to improve the efficiency of established processes to drive efficiency.
    • Incremental innovations are often process-based, while disruptive innovations are usually new goods or processes themselves.

  • Types of Innovation

    • Strategic changes can be disruptive but are more often incremental.
    • Incremental innovation is the idea that small changes, when effected in large volume, can rapidly transform the broader organization.
    • By utilizing a maximum efficiency warehousing and distribution model, refined over and over again incrementally for improvement, Walmart has sustained a competitive advantage for decades.
    • Incremental innovations improve price/performance advancement at a rate consistent with the existing technical trajectory.

  • Organizational Development

    • The terms "change agent" and "catalyst" suggest a leader who is engaged in transformation leadership as opposed to management (management being a more incremental or efficiency-based change methodology).

  • Moving to Flexible Work Schedules

    • In addition to supporting the required incremental technologies, a well-functioning telework organization needs a management system that is at least as effective as that of a traditional organization.

  • Managers as Leaders of Change

    • First-order change is incremental, piecemeal change.