Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Other surveys state that change initiatives flounder because companies lack the skills to sustain change over time. As an example, Altman relates the experience of a large company in the energy sector attempting to reinvent itself in the face of volatile market conditions. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change. .

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas. They’ve been through the paradigm shift.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time. Nor will everyone welcome the changes that are being called for if we are going to reinvent ourselves and our companies to be competitive in this new business world. Yet, we are also more depressed, dissatisfied, and despondent than ever before.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In his first book, NINCOMPOOPERY: Why Your Customers Hate You-and How to Fix It , he leverages research across thousands of companies to show leaders how to find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. The average life expectancy of an S&P 500 company used to be seventy-five years, but today it’s fifteen years.”

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 77

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

But many companies are older organizations and are simply staid and entrenched. We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms.

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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. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening. Bureaucratic Styles. About the Author.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? We've found that these questions point to a new need for innovative cultures in the world today (distinct from innovative companies ). Note that even without data from China, Asia is bubbling with interest in innovation.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. 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.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation may be an organization's life blood, but still its success rate in most companies hovers at just 17%. Even innovation leader P&G succeeds less than 50% of the time. What prevents companies from innovating better? Managers may also fear that innovation will cannibalize current business.

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? And it’s not just your company. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. So it is with innovation. So it is with innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. the United States.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

That piece of language, that aspiration, is innovation. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal , which did not get nearly the attention it deserved, made the case that the word "innovation" has outlived its usefulness. But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating.

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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. So what if we made small, incremental improvement.

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Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

In his groundbreaking new book, Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant, David shows how any company can use the “brand relevance” strategy to achieve long-term, competitive success. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

If the goal is to go beyond basic labor arbitrage savings to improve the process — and it should be — then companies need a good understanding of both their existing business processes and the new processes they want RPA to enable before implementing the technology. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lean innovation is being embraced by everyone — from the smallest start-ups to the largest global organizations. And that’s where the money is in innovation. And that’s where the money is in innovation. Lean innovation embraces a philosophy of not letting progress get in the way of perfection.

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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. A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

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.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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. The Danaher Business System drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

At a time when so many companies are starved for growth, senior leaders must bring a productivity mindset to their business and remove organizational obstacles to workforce productivity. Companies most often improve labor efficiency by finding ways to reduce the number of labor hours required to produce the same level of output.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

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. Crotonville also provides a platform for driving cultural and leadership change across the company.

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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. 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.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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.

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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.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement. Implementing the change.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 10

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 14

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.

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Six Sigma Early Adopters Management Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I was reminded of this painful memory recently, while reading Jeffrey Rothfeder’s Driving Honda , which examines the company’s innovation culture. But innovators should keep some rules of thumb in mind: All prototypes have limitations and ways in which they are going to bias users and the results.

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