Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. Executing Strategy. The HR and finance groups within a university installed a new software system to automate tasks and have better information for decisions. Implementing a Change Management Approach. Do you see yours on the list?

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Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. This problem is not limited to top management, however.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making. P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8