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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. This requires developing creative approaches to finding new ideas from outside of healthcare. The development of Memorial’s Heart and Vascular building is another example of ideas inspired by innovisits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM) have gained competitive advantage in the first two, and the jury is still out on the third: Type 1: These are “pure” information goods, where digital natives rule. Mastery of hard science is a pre-requisite to develop software-based solutions on the hardware.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

With the $300 House initiative, it's easy to see the potential to spark innovation that, with a single stroke, could ameliorate several quality-of-life-concerns at once: shelter, water purification, alternative energy, cooking fuel and information access. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. We learned quite a bit.

Govindarajan 14

Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 14

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

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This hands-off approach works because on-site executives can rely on informal communication and feedback mechanisms to maintain oversight. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This hands-off approach works because on-site executives can rely on informal communication and feedback mechanisms to maintain oversight. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. A second major trend in the world of work is that low-skilled jobs are going away due to automation, while all jobs are becoming more analytical as " big data " provides workers with more information to make decisions.

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

To gain some real end-to-end experience — perhaps making a concerted effort to try out advanced analytics in the hiring process, improve content in financial reporting, bring more data to decisions made by the senior team, and improve the quality of data used in marketing. Information & technology Strategy'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8