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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. Knowing that he could weather the Great Recession better than employees, in 2009 he promised there would be no layoffs. Employees responded by cutting costs in excess of six percent.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. 2009) Start with why: How great leaders inspire others to take action. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix.

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Understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) in Protein Purification

Curious Cat

Related: YouTube Uses Multivariate Experiment To Improve Sign-ups 15% (2009) – Combinatorial Testing for Software – Marketers Are Embracing Statistical Design of Experiments (2005).

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle?

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

To address this shortcoming, Mayo Clinic formed a partnership in 2009 with the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Pediatrics to create a pilot program: the Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program for Part IV MOC.

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

We've worked with a growing number of companies to pair future leaders with social entrepreneurs so they can teach each other the skills they've honed. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.