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Unleashing the Power of C-Level Business Tools: Strategies for Success.

Rich Gee Group

(resource) Balanced Scorecard: A framework for measuring and managing performance across crucial business perspectives, including financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

However, all kidding aside, there was a powerful lesson here to be learned; one that may have transformed me as a teacher… and I missed it. However, while it may be a fairly straight-forward task to teach a management or improvement process to someone, the real challenge may lie in first determining what is “right” to do in any given context.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! The Secret - The Law of Getting What You Want The U.S. License. .   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better.

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Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization

Harvard Business Review

Almost all companies organize people in a hierarchy, and then run well known managerial processes (planning, budgeting, staffing, measuring, etc) with it. If you had told an average citizen in the year 1900 what this structure and those sets of processes were accomplishing everywhere today, they would have thought you daft.

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Capturing the Innovation Mindset at Bally Technologies

Harvard Business Review

These teams have disciplined processes to get the technology to market, generally with a one- to two-year product horizon. Finally, it has Kaizen events where both salaried and hourly employees gather together for a week, mapping processes in order to solve problems and streamline operations.