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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The changes have been so dramatic that most companies are still scrambling to figure out the new rules of the game. Ohno’s inventions became the foundation of the quality movement that swept the world starting in the 1970s and ’80s and evolved into what is today known as the Toyota Production System.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Since the late nineteenth century, we have seen five distinct movements in the way companies compete. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Japanese manufacturers in the 1950s had a reputation for poor quality, but through a culture of analytical and systematic change Japan was able to go from worst to first. But what's happened in Japan?

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too.

Marketing 12

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. It is an expression of a company’s ideal for leadership excellence. Education General Electric Human resources Leadership development'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, few leaders express confidence in their companies' ability to adapt. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. Here's this new approach.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

These companies are in trouble, and their boards must select new CEOs under highly charged circumstances. The alternative, and unfortunately the usual route, is to compile a laundry list of laudable qualities. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

So with a decade just ended, it is a good time to take stock of recent developments, and then look ahead to likely future management innovations. To gain perspective, it's often helpful to take a look back at the management processes developed in earlier eras. The 1980s saw the rise of total quality management in the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

A common formula to create a best-selling business book is to start with a list of eye-catching companies that have been outperforming their peers for years. Subsequently, the management thinker takes the list of superior companies and examines (usually in a rather less objective way) what these companies have in common.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Early Adopters Management Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. Just look at the. $1

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. Too many companies are a full generation behind, and acquiring those capabilities in a hurry may be necessary.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

These companies are in trouble, and their boards must select new CEOs under highly charged circumstances. The alternative, and unfortunately the usual route, is to compile a laundry list of laudable qualities. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

(Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. More recently, we have focused on the value of Lean, Six Sigma , and diversity. We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. He was talking about how to help leaders influence others.

Influence 8

Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984).

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. In this phase, it’s easy to fail, and it’s easy for the company to reject the new approach. How do you define design?

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). But some companies realize they need to go beyond making episodic improvements.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Burns shares insights from her company's forays into bringing business into social challenges. Opportunities like the challenge by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar can inspire companies and their employees to ask: What could we bring to contribute to the improvement of housing for the people who live at the "base of the pyramid?".

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. Some adopt rigorous quality programs to provide formal project management for global projects.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. Some adopt rigorous quality programs to provide formal project management for global projects.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15