First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2014

David Shaked is an independent consultant—a positive change leader for individuals, teams, and organizations. He has been practicing Lean Thinking and Six Sigma for 15 years as a certified Master Black Belt.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics : Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard.

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Forrester Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard TQM 52

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. Furthermore, in most organizations, implementing continuous improvement requires a change in culture. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience.

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Resistance Six Sigma Supply Chain Stakeholder Analysis 184

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The Value-Based Performance Improvement Model © is an affordable approach that healthcare providers can use to develop a Lean Six Sigma style performance measurement system. Download a copy of Aligning Healthcare Organizations : Lessons in improved Quality and Efficiency from the Nuclear Power Industry by clicking here.

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Six Sigma Organization White Paper Efficiency 62

Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

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. It evokes the warm and gratifying prospect of being part of a successful team or organization. Learn More.

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Quality Leadership Development Six Sigma Development 137

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Each year, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence is presented to a small handful of organizations who have proven themselves worthy by being consistently superior on seven criteria for overall performance excellence. Since then, Six Sigma has widespread use throughout our economy.

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Six Sigma Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Knowledge Management 92

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

So as we begin our official launch of Winning Well, we share with you why we believe this message is so vital for you and your organization. Invite us to speak to your organization or conference. If you haven’t picked up a copy, you can get it on Amazon, in hardback or audio version. How can I help spread the word?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

Echoing Max De Pree, Herbold writes, “The core job of a leader in any organization is to quickly and accurately assess the current situation and any vulnerabilities and opportunities the organization may have.” In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process.

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Six Sigma COO Leadership Constraint 279

Mike Cardus

APRIL 10, 2022

Every interaction with others in your organization is an opportunity to increase or decrease support for your work and intended outcomes. Rath & Strong’s six sigma team pocket guide. Email opportunities and challenges. Federico, M., & Beaty, R. McGraw-Hill.

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Six Sigma Resistance Reference Report 78

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. I will see you there!

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Six Sigma Development Team Workshop 108

Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 16, 2015

How much is waste costing your organization? You don’t need to be in a profit-producing role or be Six Sigma certified to be a productivity leader. There’s waste everywhere – in for-profit and non-profit organizations alike – and in every function. There’s no substitute for developing others.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Transportation 120

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

And while this can work in a relatively stable organization without any significant leadership issues, it’s the wrong approach if you’ve never put any thought into your own leadership capabilities, as well as those of other people in important positions. Leading a Growing Organization.

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Six Sigma Company CPA Finance 51

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. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. This led to a culture version of our Range of Reality: Range of Reality.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Help the organization continually prioritize change efforts, and focus on the change initiatives that are the highest priority. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. Let’s equip ourselves together to become more resilient to accommodate that.’”.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

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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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Excess Transportation, the second of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the additional transportation costs incurred by an organization when unnecessarily moving materials, parts, or finished goods within the operations cycle. Can you think of examples of excessive transportation waste within your organization?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

This overproduction of material can be in the manufacturing process, in the administrative functions of your organization, or in your maintenance processes. Can you think of ways in which your organization overproduces? Premium Tactical Execution Greg Gaskey lean operations lean six sigma overproduction strategydriven waste'

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 60

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

” Individuals (and organizations) have only two alternatives: get better or get worse, improve or decay. The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. Change is inevitable – failure is optional.

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Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds. Just because your facility is tidy, organized, and responsive does not mean that it is also Lean when it comes to inventory wastes.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 65

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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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Consider, as examples, the following five jobs that are made more effective with a change management approach – a structured, systemic way to transition the elements of an organization and the people in it from their current state to one that brings about desired results. Human Resources. Process Improvement.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Properly assisting executives and managers of the organization in sustaining reliability in all the business processes. It all can be done by keeping a proper eye on the entire operations and strategy of the organization. ? Provides proper support to business compliance initiatives, including ISO 9000 and Six Sigma.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. When considering approaches to search for inefficiencies within your organization, how should you begin? By focusing on the Non-Value Adding portions of your organization.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The goal is to succinctly identify the core factors at the root of the 50 – 70% failure rate of organization change initiatives and programs. It’s proving especially challenging to boil all this down to a 60 minute webcast for the (no charge) November 4 Leading a Peak Performance Culture webcast.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2013

When I first read Karen Martin’s book, The Outstanding Organization, her definition of a problem versus opportunity stuck with me. ”In recent years, it has become popular to avoid the word problem in organizations, recasting it instead as an opportunity for improvement.

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Definition Organization Books Positioning 443

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. I also began a self-study effort to explore all things quality, from Philip Crosby and Zero Defects to Genichi Taguchi and Robust Design to Six Sigma Quality and the critical desire to reduce defect rates to 6.3

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. The change impacted how the organization worked with outside partners and with the community. Internally, they worked to adopt and integrate the new service into the organization. Starting Up a New Product or Service. Executing Strategy. Moving Locations.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations. It was never designed for that purpose and is, in fact, ill-suited to managing the complex web of commitments that are the organization. He may be reached at www.humanpotentialproject.com.

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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. He may be reached at www.humanpotentialproject.com. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As such, it has become all but impossible for many organizations to adapt to our changing business world. Simply put, an organization that cannot innovate is dead; the only things missing are the inevitable funeral and suffering along the way. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.”

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2011

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Referenced: Six Sigma Team Dynamics; The Elusive Key to Project Success ; Eckes, George; Wiley: 2003. Establish a set of goals & objectives – in any team recognition and understanding of the goal is paramount.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. Eliminate these modern wastes – silent killers of productivity and profitability – and transform your organization! About the Author.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 74

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. Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

The Six Disciplines program focuses on the most relevant and critical aspects of building an enduring organization. Unlike most strategic planning models/frameworks that can be daunting, the Six Disciplines methodology is practical and pragmatic. Each of the logically ordered steps is clearly explained.” ” ~ D.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

As organizations struggle to grow revenues and reduce costs in our challenging economic times, service/quality is becoming even more critical. It’s where organizations thrive, survive, or nosedive. In high service/quality organizations, all three rings are strong and growing. Perceived value is high.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. While everyone knows organizations are more than just lines and boxes on a chart, the commonly expressed idea that “the people are the organization” is misleading.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Working against existing folkloric constructs of; “if it ain’t broke” It has always been that way This will pass, like the other projects Remember 20 year ago we tried something like that and it failed miserably etc… And everyone understands (somewhere in their minds) that the organization, team, process is in constant adjustment. Resources

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