Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum. In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process. It’s also a very fragile process.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2012

Fixing involves corporate improvement programs like Activity Based Costing, Six Sigma and others.”These Creating is about transformation—imagination, declaration, invention, and innovation. These tools are effective when a better past is the desired outcome, but they’re dead weight in the business of transformation.”

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. Since then, Six Sigma has widespread use throughout our economy. Steel) won the award , drawing attention to Six Disciplines as providing a complete program for strategy execution coaching and performance excellence.

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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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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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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. “But they are not set up to take risks, to be innovative, and try new things out,” Altman adds. Dynamic, innovative, changing, and constantly learning: This is the new reality. It may be a tough message.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Developing these items will open-up the discussions and innovation to move your team and you forward. Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Some of the items below may seem like common sense, good. Are you following the steps? Does the team know the method and process being used for the meeting. Referenced.

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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. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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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. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. Perhaps it’s an over-reliance on highly data-driven methodologies like Six Sigma or lean. But first, we need to understand the dynamics of change.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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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. 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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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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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ? Concerns about a relationship ? michael cardus is create-learning image by by Emergency Photography.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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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. One is a series of articles and the other is past blogs on the topic.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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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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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. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven' Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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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. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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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. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four.

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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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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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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. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. the United States. Absolutely not!

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

That piece of language, that aspiration, is innovation. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal , which did not get nearly the attention it deserved, made the case that the word "innovation" has outlived its usefulness. But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating. Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. 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. 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. 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. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

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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. So what if we made small, incremental improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

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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. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lean innovation is being embraced by everyone — from the smallest start-ups to the largest global organizations. And that’s where the money is in innovation. And that’s where the money is in innovation. Lean innovation embraces a philosophy of not letting progress get in the way of perfection.

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