Six Disciplines

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How to Connect Strategy and Execution

Six Disciplines

We call this framework ACTAS, which stands for the first letter of the five Change Adoption Phases: Awareness, Commitment, Trained Learning, Applied Learning, and Sustained Application. Change Adoption Phase 3: Trained Learning. It is not enough to get the commitment — now you must show people exactly how to implement the changes.

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The Four Quadrants of the Business Excellence Model

Six Disciplines

Quite often, sales have outpaced capacity, so leadership becomes focused on strengthening internal operations to address quality, scheduling, hiring, training, customer service, order processing and other issues. In other words, the movement into Quadrant IV is a natural reaction to success in Quadrant I.