Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2014
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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2013
This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases. Six Sigma UX : Successful UX is often about doing less, not more. Done this way, UX is practical and efficient, dispelling preconceptions about the slow pace of design.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. This usually requires incubation and protection of a new venture in an autonomous unit. Incremental Improvement. Sustaining Innovation.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2015
Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. Streamlining a process with Lean Six Sigma fits this mental model: you focus your product development on making things perfect before releasing them to the market. And we took a stand on what the future holds: driving Industrial Internet solutions.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2015
By now, your company probably has a new business incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.
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