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.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

For example, at Bank of America, 44 senior bank managers and about two dozen consultants worked on a cost-cutting initiative called "Project New BAC". A friend of mine worked at a large and prestigious consulting firm with a cost-cutting methodology called "activity value analysis."

Cost 9

Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning.

Skills 16

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. 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. What's it worth?

Process 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

One example is six sigma , where a company seeks to have no more than 3.4 Michael Raynor, a consultant at Deloitte, shares the example of Sony's strategy for the MiniDisc. In bull markets, CEOs haul in large sums as the beneficiaries of luck. In bear markets, superior CEOs fare poorly as a consequence of bad luck.

Skills 8

Skills Six Sigma Incentives Sports 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

A BPM expert – it could be the outside consultant or internal BPM Team Facilitator – provides formal and informal coaching to them. Reduce time to market for this product). This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager.

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. While on one such visit, the innovistor team learned of a design consultancy whose architectural approach seemed like a much better fit with Memorial’s needs than the approach in development.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Earlier this year we sent a 10-employee team of Dow Corning volunteers from around the globe — our Citizen Service Corps — to Bangalore, India, to serve, discover and innovate with NGOs and other social enterprises, while searching for new thinking about how we could apply our business strategy and processes in emerging markets.

Govindarajan 14

Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 14

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. How can we apply what we've always been great at to markets or customer segments we've never worked with?

Innovation 16

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 16