Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management. Process Management. They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. Workforce Focus. Business Results.

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Six Sigma Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Knowledge Management 92

Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

Capitalizing upon the innovation and motivation of the people who work along with you to complete the work. Overview: An interactive examination of what Quality leadership is and how you can leverage existing knowledge, competencies, Quality Practices, tools and initiatives to improve your organization, team and self.

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Quality Leadership Development Six Sigma Development 138

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. It may be a tough message.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams Thursday, October 07th, 2010 Posted by: mike ASQ Buffalo NY Lean Six Sigma Conference. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference.

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Six Sigma Development Team Workshop 108

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. American leaders need to wake up and smell the coffee. What can be done?

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. The executive/manager’s beliefs form his or her reality that drives behavior. Catch people doing things right.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Twenty-five years ago, management meant control. Managers put in controls, handed workers specifications, and established formal structures that ensured that people did what they were told. Below are excerpts from her article Execution: The Un-Idea. That ability is central to running a company right now.

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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Six Sigma Team Building Conference Comparison 120

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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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Our choice is to manage this ongoing process and improve the things that can be improved, or ignore the process and decay. The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning.

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Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

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. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste. Lock in and Engage Top Talent. Set the Stage for Engagement.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 65

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As a project leader/manager one of your primary responsibilities is to increase the absorptive capacity of the project to organizational and community stakeholders. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

And he discusses six sigma (which certainly has issues) but as I have written before if you want to learn what value six sigma offers listen to what Roger (and others such as Ron Snee, Gerry Hahn…) say. Hunter: an Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

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. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 70

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. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

michael cardus is create-learning Referenced From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams. To discuss how this could be facilitated with your team and the value added contact Mike Now.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 99

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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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation may be an organization's life blood, but still its success rate in most companies hovers at just 17%. Even innovation leader P&G succeeds less than 50% of the time. What prevents companies from innovating better? So in the end, it's a mixed message: "We want you to innovate, but only after you've done your real job.".

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 15

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. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening. Bureaucratic Styles. Worship of Information.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? We've found that these questions point to a new need for innovative cultures in the world today (distinct from innovative companies ). Note that even without data from China, Asia is bubbling with interest in innovation.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Leadership and Management. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. Subscribe to our mailing list today! References.

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Covey Deming Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 69

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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Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

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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Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

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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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Defining and Managing the Category or Subcategory. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success. Detailed with more than two dozen case studies, Brand Relevance lays out the four key tasks required to attain brand relevance: Finding New Concepts.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes. An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Management is not an exact science, they say. And the authors — aspiring "management thinkers" and "gurus" (never scientists) — have an excellent sense of the pulse of the business public. Business education Managing yourself' And I guess most things that involve the study of human behavior cannot be.

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Six Sigma Early Adopters Management Fashion 9

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. But improvement has improved.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

When we applied the techniques of Six Sigma analysis to the CMS data, we found that just 32 hospitals — less than 1% of the hospitals in the data — accounted for about 25% of the excess accepted charges. government and the hospitals themselves should consider engaging in a Six-Sigma-type analysis every year for continuous improvement.

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Six Sigma Cost Health Care Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. For instance, we have a course for mid-level executives, called the Manager Development Course (MDC).

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Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. Partnering: getting ideas from start-ups.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. At a leading global logistics company, for example, the business rules in a claims process suggested that decisions on tolerances for refunds required the judgment of a manager.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Neither viewed market share as its top priority, but both kept it current in their databases to be ready for the occasional question from senior management.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8