The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. History teaches that tectonic change can be an agent of organizational destruction or renewal. It all depends on how we respond. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

&# This draws from The Three Rings of Perceived Value model we developed at The Achieve Group (now part of AchieveGlobal) and featured in my second book Firing on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered Corporate Performance.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components. Personal development (or self awareness being the more accurate description) does not come from reading a few books or attending the odd seminar. But many companies are older organizations and are simply staid and entrenched.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Consult with experts, directly and indirectly. Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. Tip #4: Ask “Who” can help me? Get the facts. Solicit feedback.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Having my start in training and development while working for Bic in Charlotte NC. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. That time really impacted my life.

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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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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Any effort required to adapt the molding piece, because of variation in its length – a little too long or too short – represents Quality Loss, a concept introduced and developed in Japan by Genichi Taguchi. Figure 2 – Marking a piece of wood molding before cutting it to size.

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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). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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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. billion customer journey transformation program.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management.

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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. Will Duke is Afterburner’s Director of Learning and Development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

In fact, instead of strengthening managers'' ability to manage change, we''ve instead allowed managers to outsource change management to HR specialists and consultants instead of taking accountability themselves — an approach that often doesn''t work. Everyone agrees that change management is important.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. frog and our peers in the design consulting world have become more adept in recent years at helping companies build this capacity internally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems. Every major company relies on its contractors, consultants and suppliers. Link unemployment benefits to professional development.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Her multi-dimensional perspective and consultative, solution-based approach were extremely well received by the health care business’ customers. At GE, we have used “integration leader” (of an acquisition) and Six Sigma Black Belt roles to broaden individuals at the mid-management level so they can better adapt to future opportunities.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. These were all good things and to be expected after investing many millions of dollars on people, systems, and consultants. What's it worth?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Gruenfeld suggests asking someone who cares about your development as well as the quality of your performance to tell you what she thinks. He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. For five months, Mark struggled to get the project on track and his confidence suffered.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. As Peter Hunter , a former naval officer and management consultant, has said , "People hate being told what to do. And by training them, you can demonstrate your commitment to their development. A few said it was because people didn't follow the methodology (e.g.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

One example is six sigma , where a company seeks to have no more than 3.4 Strategy development is a case in point. Michael Raynor, a consultant at Deloitte, shares the example of Sony's strategy for the MiniDisc. Some are like basketball — almost all skill and very little luck.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. These efforts have paid huge dividends.

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