Six Disciplines

MAY 22, 2012

Why don’t more employees do what they are supposed to do? . In a recent post by Banchard Leaderchat , author and consultant William Schiemann might have part of the answer—only 14% of the organizations he polled report that their employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. How would your company score on a similar survey?

Strategy 92

Strategy Survey Consultative Report 92

Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

In the Best Companies for Leaders survey, management consultancy Hay Group identified the top 20 best-in-class companies as well as what makes these companies known for great leadership. Key findings of the Hay Group's research: When asked what organizations value the most in leaders, 83 percent of the best-in-class organizations as compared to others said “execution.”.

Execution 92

Execution Strategy Quality Class 92

Six Disciplines

MARCH 6, 2012

"Want to be a leader? It's different than being a manager, or even an entrepreneur.". So says Dan Bobinski, Executive Director for The Center for Workplace Excellence. In his most recent article "What Makes A Great Leader?", Dan references one his favorite books "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, by Gary Harpst. "If you desire to be a great leader and these skills do not come naturally to you (and very rarely do they come naturally to anybody), may I recommend becoming a student of these ski

Leadership 92

Leadership Reference Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 92

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Executive Summary. Customer Profile. Bluffton Motor Works, located in Bluffton, Indiana is a global leader in custom-engineered fractional motors. Bluffton Motor Works serves a wide variety of OEM manufacturers and industrial production facilities. The Challenge. Bluffton Motor Works (BLMW) needed help identifying highly important, high-impact initiatives for their business.Read the entire Bluffton Motor Works client success story here.

Succession 91

Succession Engineering Globalization Industry 91

Six Disciplines

MAY 30, 2012

While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn't provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect compliment to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

Strategic Planning 89

Strategic Planning Software Knowledge Management Class 89

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 23, 2012

According to a newly released study from NIST, the benefit-to-cost ratio of a performance excellence program (like Baldrige) is 820-to-1. In their research, economists Albert N. Link, and John T. Scott (University of North Carolina, and Dartmouth College, respectively) used their economic tools to measure the net social value of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

Cost 89

Cost Education Commitment Tools 89

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 11, 2012

How many times are you distracted at the office on an average day? What do you think these interruptions cost you in productive work time? The answer is probably more than you think. According to a recent survey of more than 500 workers conducted by uSamp: More than 50 percent of workers waste an hour or more each day on interruptions. 60 percent of workers are regularly interrupted by email and other electronic missives. 40 percent cite phone calls and communicative colleagues as the biggest di

Survey 89

Survey Cost Productivity Products 89

Six Disciplines

MAY 11, 2012

One of the best resources about the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework is " Your Reference Guide to Performance Excellence " (published by NIST) which exp lains the benefits of Baldrige and the tools, approaches, and resources available to you. What Is Performance Excellence? What Baldrige Offers You. What Makes Baldrige Different. Begin Your Journey.

Reference 85

Reference Video Resources Tools 85

Six Disciplines

MAY 7, 2012

On the National Baldrige Performance Excellence website, there's a great article entitled " Why Take The Baldrige Journey? ". Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to effectively and efficiently meet their missions and achieve their visions. Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance, and get sustainable results.

Strategic Planning 85

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Analysis Efficiency 85

Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2012

The Hay Group , a global management consulting firm, today released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. This year, no surprises - General Electric topped the list, followed by Procter & Gamble, IBM, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. .

Innovation 85

Innovation Process Leadership Report 85

Six Disciplines

MARCH 1, 2012

Gary Harpst, CEO of Six Disciplines , was recently interviewed by Jim Blasingame (The Small Business Advocate ). Here are links to three podcasts that reveal the Six Disciplines approach: Achieve significant growth through holistic performance excellence management. Six elements of a holistic performance excellence management program. Have you adopted a total performance excellence approach toward managing your organization?

CEO 85

CEO Management Organization 85

Six Disciplines

MARCH 1, 2012

From the fourth primary research study since 2006, the report " Pursuit of Performance Excellence: Business Success through Effective Plant Operations Metrics " released today by the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International and industry analyst and consulting firm Cambashi, revealed that companies improving on multi-faceted metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and forward-looking metrics such as portion of orders booked within schedule freeze period ar

Influence 85

Influence Metrics Operations Software 85

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In a recent Gallup Management Journal study , the resulting cost from bad project management is reaching astronomical levels. Why? Apparently, "when it comes to project management, most organizations put their practices before their people. They place more emphasis on rational factors -- the process itself -- and less on emotional drivers that could lead to project excellence -- like their employees' engagement with the project and company.".

Project 85

Project Cost Supply Chain Management 85

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 4, 2012

The ROI of performance excellence programs like Six Disciplines has been researched and proven many times over, by similar quality, performance, and business excellence programs like Baldrige, EFQM, and TQM. The value of implementing a performance excellence program like Six Disciplines is hard to ignore: A study by the European Foundation for Quality Management of 120 award-winning companies, including 24 from the U.S., compared their financial performance to that of similar companies that had

ROI 85

ROI TQM EFQM Comparison 85

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

On the National Baldrige Performance Excellence website, there's a great article entitled " Why Take The Baldrige Journey? ". Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to effectively and efficiently meet their missions and achieve their visions. Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance, and get sustainable results.

Strategic Planning 82

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Analysis Efficiency 82

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Six Disciplines® is a total performance excellence program. By integrating a proven best-practices methodology and innovative Outlook software, we help you to build an effective culture of continuous improvement, enabling you to achieve predictable and measurable growth. . The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. .

ROI 82

ROI TQM Quality Magazine 82

Six Disciplines

MAY 30, 2012

You probably already work in Microsoft Outlook – all day, every day. It helps you manage your email, your calendar, your contacts, your to-do list. . Now there's a way to get even more value from Outlook. . Six Disciplines gives you the capability to create strategy, manage plans, set goals, and manage projects - all within Microsoft Outlook. . Six Disciplines brings your people and plans together in a unified place where they spend most of their time every day – inside Outlook. .

Project 82

Project Goal Strategy Management 82

Six Disciplines

APRIL 30, 2012

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence provide a framework for understanding performance management. They reflect validated, proven best-practices against which an organization can measure itself. Baldrige criteria has been accepted nationally (including individual states) and internationally, as the model for performance excellence: a common language for communication among organizations for sharing best practices .

Video 82

Video CEO Organization Company 82

Six Disciplines

APRIL 9, 2012

The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., has committed funds to sustain the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) through fiscal year 2015 - further evidence of the commitment to the long-term viability of Baldrige. The foundation said its support was due in part to its confidence in the ongoing development of the business and financial model by the Baldrige Enterprise, which includes BPEP , the foundation , the Alliance for Performance Excellence , and ASQ.

Long-term 82

Long-term Software Class Commitment 82

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 12, 2012

IndustryWeek recently reported on a survey it conducted with TBM Consulting about the impact of continuous-improvement programs on three financial metrics: anticipated revenue growth, operating income growth, and cash flow over the past year. “Across the board, companies with no continuous improvement programs performed worse across all three measures,” TBM Consulting researchers revealed here: More than 50% of respondents with no continuous improvement program said they expect reven

Competitive Advantage 82

Competitive Advantage Metrics Maturity Strategic Planning 82

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 27, 2012

“You probably already work in Microsoft Outlook – all day, every day. It helps you manage your email, your calendar, your contacts, your to-do list. . Now there's a way to get even more value from Outlook. . Six Disciplines gives you the capability to create strategy, manage plans, set goals, and manage projects - all within Microsoft Outlook. . Six Disciplines brings your people and plans together in a unified place where they spend most of their time every day – inside Outlook. .

Project 78

Project Goal Strategy Management 78

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 14, 2012

While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn't provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect complement to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Class Analysis 78

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2012

While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn't provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect compliment to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Class Analysis 78

Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

For many of us, Microsoft Outlook has become the central place where work is received, managed and delegated. On any given day, your inbox may be suffering from information overload, but Six Disciplines offers a practical way to make sense of it all. Since most of us "live in Outlook" all day, every day, why not manage both your professional and personal life there too?

Software 78

Software Delegation Goal Commitment 78

Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

Tough times require tough decisions. During times of economic uncertainty, strategy refinement and execution need to become a top priority for business leaders. SWOT Analyses are one of the top-rated core services offered by Six Disciplines. . SWOT is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in your business.

SWOT 78

SWOT Innovation Uncertainty Strategic Planning 78

Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

Six Disciplines® is a total performance excellence program. By integrating a proven best-practices methodology and innovative Outlook software, we help you to build an effective culture of continuous improvement, enabling you to achieve predictable and measurable growth. . The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. .

ROI 78

ROI TQM Quality Magazine 78

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the best resources about the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework is " Your Reference Guide to Performance Excellence " (published by NIST) which exp lains the benefits of Baldrige and the tools, approaches, and resources available to you. What Is Performance Excellence? What Baldrige Offers You. What Makes Baldrige Different. Begin Your Journey.

Reference 74

Reference Video Resources Tools 74

Six Disciplines

JUNE 8, 2012

The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to gain clarity about your organization's performance on the key Baldrige performance excellence dimensions of: . Leadership / Culture. Strategy. Customer Focus. Measurement . People. Processes. Results. Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, the Organizational Performance Assessment service uses questions that map to the Baldrige performance excellen

Benchmarking 74

Benchmarking Maturity Comparison Analysis 74

Six Disciplines

MAY 30, 2012

You probably already work in Microsoft Outlook – all day, every day. It helps you manage your email, your calendar, your contacts, your to-do list. . Now there's a way to get even more value from Outlook. . Six Disciplines gives you the capability to create strategy, manage plans, set goals, and manage projects - all within Microsoft Outlook. . Six Disciplines brings your people and plans together in a unified place where they spend most of their time every day – inside Outlook. .

Project 74

Project Goal Strategy Management 74

Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2012

While the Baldrige quality framework has been proven many times to be the leading performance excellence model, a recent article " Baldrige Tools: Providing a Roadmap, Not a Prescription " reveals a number of scenarios that should raise a certain level of concern and risk. . "The Baldrige feedback report is useful - to a degree, but the feedback report will not prescribe specific fixes for identified areas in need of improvement.

Tools 74

Tools Guidelines Report Quality 74

Six Disciplines

JUNE 12, 2012

Performance excellence is a journey, and the most frequent question we’re asked is “ Where do I begin ?”. The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to begin your performance excellence journey. It gives you clarity about where your organization is, relative to the key Baldrige criteria for performance excellence: Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, our Organizational Performance Assessment

Maturity 70

Maturity System Organization Management 70

Six Disciplines

JUNE 8, 2012

The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to gain clarity about your organization's performance on the key Baldrige performance excellence dimensions of: . Leadership / Culture. Strategy. Customer Focus. Measurement . People. Processes. Results. Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, the Organizational Performance Assessment service uses questions that map to the Baldrige performance excellen

Benchmarking 70

Benchmarking Maturity Comparison Analysis 70

Six Disciplines

MAY 30, 2012

While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn't provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect compliment to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Software Knowledge Management Class 70

Six Disciplines

MAY 22, 2012

Why don’t more employees do what they are supposed to do? . In a recent post by Banchard Leaderchat , author and consultant William Schiemann might have part of the answer—only 14% of the organizations he polled report that their employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. How would your company score on a similar survey?

Strategy 70

Strategy Survey Consultative Report 70

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2012

While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn't provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect compliment to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Class Analysis 70

Six Disciplines

MAY 11, 2012

One of the best resources about the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework is " Your Reference Guide to Performance Excellence " (published by NIST) which exp lains the benefits of Baldrige and the tools, approaches, and resources available to you. What Is Performance Excellence? What Baldrige Offers You. What Makes Baldrige Different. Begin Your Journey.

Reference 70

Reference Video Resources Tools 70

Six Disciplines

MAY 7, 2012

On the National Baldrige Performance Excellence website, there's a great article entitled " Why Take The Baldrige Journey? ". Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to effectively and efficiently meet their missions and achieve their visions. Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance, and get sustainable results.

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Knowledge Management Analysis Efficiency 70