incremental
(adjective)
Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
Examples of incremental in the following topics:
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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
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The Even/Odd Strategy
- Increments in the micro number still indicate bug fixes (no new features), and increments in the major number still indicate big changes, new feature sets, etc.
- The development team handles the bug reports that come in from the unstable (odd-minor-numbered) series, and when things start to settle down after some number of micro releases in that series, they increment the minor number (thus making it even), reset the micro number back to "0", and release a presumably stable package.
- This forces the minor number to be incremented about twice as often as would otherwise be necessary, but there's no great harm in that.
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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.
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Introduction to evaluating the normal approximation
- The observations are rounded to the nearest whole inch, explaining why the points appear to jump in increments in the normal probability plot.
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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.
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Gomphoses
- These joints have a very limited range of mobility to hold the teeth firmly in place, although as illustrated with braces, it is possible to move them incrementally over time.
- Braces are adjusted incrementally over time to pull and push the teeth into place.
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Features and Requirements List
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Release Number Components
- The meanings of these numbers are exactly what you'd expect: an increment of the major number indicates that major changes happened; an increment of the minor number indicates minor changes; and an increment of the micro number indicates really trivial changes.
- There are also projects that use the last component as a build number, incremented every time the software is built and representing no change other than that build.
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Productivity Gains from Software
- Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
- Agile methods break tasks into small increments with minimal planning and do not directly involve long-term planning.
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The Multiplier Effect
- The multiplier is influenced by an incremental amount of spending that leads to higher consumption spending, increased income, and then even more consumption.
- As a result, the overall national income is greater than the initial incremental amount of spending.