Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. Her multi-dimensional perspective and consultative, solution-based approach were extremely well received by the health care business’ customers.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

We consulted with Stuart Hart , the best-selling author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World and an advocate of immersion in unfamiliar circumstances, and with CDC Development Solutions in order to gain insight into how we could make the projects a success. We learned quite a bit.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Well, after a traditional education, business school, and five years working in strategy consulting and venture capital, I went to a cocktail reception at Stanford's d.school, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, where I met George Kembel, cofounder and executive director of the school. But now, I hear it all the time. So what happened?

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8