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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas.

Execution 101
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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Name and address information required. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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Core Elements to Leading a Peak Performance Culture

The Practical Leader

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. They’re innocently ignorant. Getting (Re) Started.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. We must now focus our attention on eliminating the six ‘modern’ wastes: Degenerative Moods. Worship of Information. Name and address information required. Not Listening.

Ohno 50
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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. RPA can also simplify the information environment. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

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. Greater information availability. Twenty years ago there wasn't an Internet to allow companies to easily share information.