The design firm Ideo has made excellent improvements to the process by which public services like Social Security get handled. Technology firms are able to improve their products at a faster rate using programming concepts like Agile. Automobile companies have made their cars more reliable through the process of Kaizen or continuous improvement.

Investing can also benefit from developing a process-oriented mindset where it is fine to prototype, test, fail fast, move on, and continuously improve.

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