Use of a Parallel Learning Structure to Implement System Transforming Innovations: The Case of Statistical Process Control

Parallel learning structures coexist with formal bureaucratic structures. They show great promise as a techno‐structural intervention to compensate for bureaucratic organisation′s inability to learn and adapt. A number of their applications are briefly reviewed. System transforming innovations create the need for change in the very nature of the organisations in which they are implemented. Using a case study of one manufacturing plant′s efforts to implement such an innovation (statistical process control) the article examines the practical advantages of using a parallel learning structure to aid in implementation.