Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

Left to themselves, the Uruguayan team increased productivity, and this awoke healthy competitiveness from the Venezuelans, whose productivity rose as well. Global managers should pay attention to why Daniel's second attempt worked while his first one failed. They compete better in teams. This worked wonders.

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Marketing Team Six Sigma Teamwork 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you picked a dream team to improve the way your organization does business, who would be on it? I know who would be on my team. Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Here''s a familiar story: Marketing conducts research (" Big Data "! This classic breakdown between marketing and IT is being bridged at a few leading companies such as ING , the Netherlands bank. The financial crisis changed the market conditions for banks and also people''s attitudes towards banks. Analytics "!)

Marketing 8

Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism. This case isn’t the exception.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent. Yesterday" is a sunk cost. But why not?

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

These layoffs are usually driven by small teams who look for opportunities to "right size" departments. For example, at Bank of America, 44 senior bank managers and about two dozen consultants worked on a cost-cutting initiative called "Project New BAC". They analyzed costs, set targets, and met with business and functional units.

Cost 9

Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. Integrate : Don't put the sole responsibility of the program into the hands of your Corporate Responsibility team.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. When we asked the managers what a better proportion might be, their answers were: 75% on day-to-day operations. Neither is true.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. What kind of return can shareholders expect, and when?

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Since the data originate from many sources, you must assign managers to cross-functional processes and to important external suppliers, and ensure that data creators understand what is expected. You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. 3 Steps to Improve Results of Employees & Management.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. Reduce time to market for this product). What’s in it for Me?

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

With all the excitement (and anxiety) surrounding big data and advanced analytics, it is not surprising that many organizations are naming Chief Data Officers (CDO) to manage their data needs. You don’t need a Chief Data Officer to put basic data management capabilities in place. We need to work aggressively on quality.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. By practicing these skills, your team will improve critical and creative thinking skills, leading to many game?changing

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. 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. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. 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. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. At Memorial, each Innovisit involves a cross-functional team of “Innovisitors” who have been specially recruited and prepared for these events. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

But in most cases, it’s still falling well short of its full potential because it either lacks or fails to tightly integrate with the mechanisms needed to systematically capture lessons learned and share them outside the team. And when the learnings are captured in a knowledge management system, revenue jumps again.

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Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

To combat these pressing issues, a number of hospitals across the United States are trying new approaches to managing their complexity — and with their progress a new paradigm for hospital management may be taking shape. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Earlier this year we sent a 10-employee team of Dow Corning volunteers from around the globe — our Citizen Service Corps — to Bangalore, India, to serve, discover and innovate with NGOs and other social enterprises, while searching for new thinking about how we could apply our business strategy and processes in emerging markets.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovations strategies, and even innovation days," the hard-hitting piece noted.

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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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