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Proven: Follow a Systematic Approach For A Huge Change In Bottomline Results

Six Disciplines

A key premise behind Six Disciplines has been to help people and their organizations develop a process for planning and execution. The study points out that this systematic approach (a method) to planning and execution (a holistic, complete approach) works. It doesn't depend on the industry.

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2015 Deming Prize Winners

Deming Institute

One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). GS Yuasa Corporation, Industrial Battery Production Division, Industrial Batteries and Power Sources Business Unit (Japan). Tadaaki Jagawa, Advisor, Toyota; Executive Adviser to the Board, Hino Motors (Japan).

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Case Study: Adopting a Deming Management System in a Service Company

Deming Institute

Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a This document explores implementing these ideas in the service industry. The case study details problems encountered by the company and those are very common: resistance to change (by everyone including executives) etc.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. At the start of the decade, many executives viewed the quality process with indifference or fear. TQM has increased profitability in some corporations up to six times.

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I'd expected more headhunters to call

Chartered Management Institute

Don't wait for headhunters to call - if you're a senior executive looking for a job and they haven't already then it is too late. You need to drive the process - with the right approach and the right effort almost anyone (though I am personally concerned with senior executives) can land a role and do so quickly.

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My business book of the week - Understanding the small business sector - by David Storey

Chartered Management Institute

Time at Work How your values drive your success Candidates are lying throughout recruitment Government launches new strategy for industry. Related Content: Calling a halt to mindless change - 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet? You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Many executives have never recognized this pattern of serial adoption of different approaches to what is essentially the same topic. Here's this new approach.