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. An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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. We quickly discovered that on-the-job training in real combat has tragic results.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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

APRIL 16, 2013

Yet despite the huge investment that companies have made in tools, training, and thousands of books ( over 83,000 on Amazon ), most studies still show a 60-70% failure rate for organizational change projects — a statistic that has stayed constant from the 1970''s to the present.

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Six Sigma Management Parcell Kotter 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. While there is the obvious bookwork, both programs require specific on-the-job training. The key takeaway?

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

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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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

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 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Allianz employees are paired with social entrepreneurs for a five-day intensive workshop following a mandatory training session that prepares employees for their assigned projects. Program management is split between the corporate university, the OPEX internal consulting team and the Corporate Responsibility department.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

But those leaders have had training and experience to succeed in a traditional organization with a C-suite at the top and siloed business units and functions under each executive. A BPM expert – it could be the outside consultant or internal BPM Team Facilitator – provides formal and informal coaching to them.

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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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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. 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

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. One hospital that has done this well is Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Indiana.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

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

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. ” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8