Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Name and address information required. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world. to prevent sloppy errors and wasted time.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. Name and address information required. The executive floors are largely immune from this and, at the same time, unconsciously responsible for it. Shift Your Understanding.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Worship of Information. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. Name and address information required.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. The Peak Performance Balance: Managing Things and Leading People.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. Learn to make change, not just manage it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The model for healthcare is being flipped upside down — from decades of focusing on acute care episodes and encouraging utilization to a future where successful organizations are able to reduce utilization, manage population health, and activate patients in the consumption (and delivery) of their own care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. Greater information availability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In May 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released CMS Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) inpatient data that contain discharge information for 100% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using hospital inpatient services. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. RPA can also simplify the information environment.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Whether motivated by a lack of insight arrogance, or stupidity, the illusion of rationality is a waste of time and resources — yet one that keeps a lot of people employed in management consulting, as I learned first hand. And modern management systems must become far more adaptive. Three words: fear of failure. This must change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

To combat these pressing issues, a number of hospitals across the United States are trying new approaches to managing their complexity — and with their progress a new paradigm for hospital management may be taking shape. Do you have other thoughts or experiences about how hospitals can be managed more effectively?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Middle managers had to go back and forth between firing people and finding new ones with different skills, and few people believed that the yearly planning and budgeting cycle was anything more than a painful exercise, since it was always changing midway through.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. You don’t need a Chief Data Officer to put basic data management capabilities in place.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." Program management is split between the corporate university, the OPEX internal consulting team and the Corporate Responsibility department.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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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. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To manage the rising tide of knowledge work performed by a younger generation of employees, Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Government must adopt innovation practices that mirror those used by leading entrepreneurial companies around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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