The "Academic Approach" in incremental improvement to accepted methods prevents new breakthroughs
Submitted by bcfc on August 12th, 2008
The academic approach dictates incremental improvement and prevent breakthrough thinking and innovations
Business management methods are devised using the “academic approach” that accepts the solutions in place and the existing body of knowledge as the basis and seeks to make improvements. The academic approach may produce incremental improvements, but it also prevents new management thinking and breakthroughs. New business management methods build on old methods. New business management books and articles must be substantiated as accurate by footnoting previously published works and referencing existing methods in use.
There are many fundamental problems with traditional organization and management methods that cannot be changed by traditional change methods
What if the body of knowledge in the “published record” is inaccurate or if basic management methods in use are flawed? The academic approach then propagates inaccuracies and flaws. The Business Change Forum contains hundreds of examples where today’s 20th century organization and management methods, principles, structures and definitions are flawed and inaccurate. So, new methods build on flawed old methods. New books repeat old inaccuracies.
The Business Change Forum discusses unsolvable 20th century management problems that have never been solved despite thousands and books and methods based on the academic approach to management improvement. [more...].
