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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

.” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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Deploying AI Requires Understanding What’s Both Possible and Practical

Leading Blog

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 83 percent of organizations worldwide claim AI is a top priority for their business. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Never stop paying dues… and see this continuum as “continuous quality improvement.” Philosophy.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Learning fast and slow. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.