The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. Poor Assessment of Systems/Processes and Perceptions/Attitudes. Leadership Lip Service: Behaviors Undefined and Underdeveloped. Not Building Cause and Capacity for Continuous Change.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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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. Mark Lane, 2019).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Teams must have leadership. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Carnival of Human Resources or Leadership Development Carnival ) in that it features a collection of blog posts from various authors that relate to given subject matter.  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you.  Enjoy!   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Decision-Making Warning Flag 2 – The Silent Nod.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. A few said it was because people didn't follow the methodology (e.g., As Zeus Inc.'s

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Do you have a process improvement program under way that you feel is going well? When the company declared its "reengineering success" and the publicity machine ramped up, it had a new business model on paper — a process blueprint, a series of cultural changes under way, and a pilot of the new business model just starting.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 People weighed in, and then they changed the process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. Authors James D.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Someone prevails and others, eager to wrap up this sensitive and time-consuming process, capitulate. Why is the early narrowing of criteria so important?

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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. This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

They find that the process is a distraction to their people, that it does not deliver all the cost savings they anticipated, and that many of the costs they do eliminate soon creep back in, making the whole effort feel futile. Yet for all the promise of ZBB, many companies that try it soon grow disenchanted.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Someone prevails and others, eager to wrap up this sensitive and time-consuming process, capitulate. Why is the early narrowing of criteria so important?

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers analysis, and many other tools have helped executives uncover waste in their operations — in effect, identifying labor hours (or materials) that are unnecessary in order to produce the same level of output.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

drama's main players about leadership, negotiation, and protecting our (national) brand. Lean Six Sigma , which even made its way into a candidate pledge in the last presidential campaign , is one in a series of such business-to-government waves. The clamor won't be altogether misguided. Big data is rolling in after it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? It would be very hard for Amazon or Google to guarantee customer outcomes and take risks with businesses whose operations they know little about. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

The focus was wholly on execution of mass production, and managerial solutions such as specialization of labor, standardized processes, quality control, workflow planning, and rudimentary accounting were brought to bear. Operations Organizational culture' Other universities followed. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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