History of Best Practices Bleg

2 May 2007 at 3:53 pm 1 comment

| Peter Klein |

A friend asks for help tracing the history of management thought on best practices:

I believe I can separate out two schools: the incrementalists (incremental improvement) and the revolutionists (redo your firm, industry). . . . Is there a journal article categorizing the big names (Drucker, Deming, Hamel, Collins) in a history of thought manner? That would really help me.

Any suggestions?

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  • 1. Ron Wendeln's avatar Ron Wendeln  |  8 May 2007 at 2:10 pm

    While not exactly to your point–but possibly still helpful–Henry Mintzberg (et al) tried to categorize various schools of strategy in his book “Strategy Safari” (1998), which I recall was preceded by a HBR article. Mintzberg classifies strategy according to the schools of: design; planning; positioning; entrepreneurship; cognitive; learning; power; cultural; environmental; and configuration. My apologies in advance if you’ve already seen the title–it’s a few years old already. Still, it provides some insight into the biases of what actually comprises “best practices.”

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