Ball Point Pens and Innovation
When I was in grade school, we used fountain pens that had cartridges of ink that sometimes spilled or stained. It wasn’t until high school that I got my first ball point pen. Here’s why that’s critical to your business.
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“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“I found it interesting that the ballpoint pen was invented in 1938, the decade before I was born. In the 50s and 60s, we used what are called fountain pens: They had these little cartridges of ink, and you would put it in the pen and you could write with it, and sometimes it would spill.
