ADOPTION OF PROMISING PRACTICE

This report presents a review of the evidence regarding the successful adoption of promising practices in UKorganisations. Promising practices are defined for the purposes of this report as management practices that are newto the organisation (e.g. Total Quality Management, Supply-Chain Partnering).A systematic review methodology was used to analyse and integrate the findings from existing studies in order toformulate both practitioner and policy recommendations.The major points discussed in the report are:The poor level of adoption of promising practices in UK organisations:• Studies conducted within the manufacturing sector demonstrate that UK organisations on average lag behindcompetitors such as Germany and Japan with regards to the adoption of promising practices.• There is some suggestion that although the leading UK manufacturers can compete with the best in the world,there is a proportionally larger tail of organisations in the UK that fail to take up the desired practices.• There is a lack of evidence indicating whether the same picture is apparent in other sectors.[...]