Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. The “Innovation Café” itself is the result of an innovisit to a Whirlpool Corporation facility that included an Innovation Training Center. .

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 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

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

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. Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 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. For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers. Not, really.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 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

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

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. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8