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.

Leadership 400

Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

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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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

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

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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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

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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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 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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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

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

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. All of this means knowing how to truly listen. He may be reached at www.humanpotentialproject.com.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 65

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Additionally taking time to know expertise and special interests of team members will all people to me matched to their capacity to complete the project tasks, as they are assigned.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

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. ” Want More?

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Almost every process improvement initiative I've researched over the last three years in more than 50 organizations has been pushed from the top. These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. He has now trained tens of thousands of people from dozens of countries. His clients include some of the world's leading organizations. So what if we made small, incremental improvement. No one wants them anymore!

Critical Success Factor 50

Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

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. We quickly discovered that on-the-job training in real combat has tragic results.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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? And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Yes, understanding the “what” and “how” are a good start, but it takes years and years of training, continuous practice, feedback, and more practice to get really good at it. Managers will often read a good leadership book, or attend a training program, and get all excited about trying out some new leadership behaviors. Mixed messages.

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Management Six Sigma Leadership Short-term 298

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Below is an edited version of my conversation with Porcini on a variety of topics, from prototyping to the essential qualities of a great design organization. Design in this context relies on the prototyping process, which can create a lot of value inside organizations because it aligns the full organization around one idea.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Yet despite the huge investment that companies have made in tools, training, and thousands of books ( over 83,000 on Amazon ), most studies still show a 60-70% failure rate for organizational change projects — a statistic that has stayed constant from the 1970''s to the present.

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Six Sigma Management Parcell Kotter 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Does your organization grade on a curve? Unfortunately, as a result some organizations that use this system end up with mechanical practices that unintentionally reduce organizational effectiveness rather than enhance it. If that's the case, then you're not alone. But across a hundred or thousand people, the curve will assert itself.

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Six Sigma Objective Process Mentor 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. And by training them, you can demonstrate your commitment to their development. Your employees will embrace change that furthers the mission of the organization if they view the value of that change to the customer as greater than the pain of change. Why aren't leaders on board?

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But the program has proven successful and has been expanded to include other specialty certification boards and health care organizations. The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management. Table 3 lists the certification boards and the health care organizations.).

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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Empower : Support employees that want to continue a relationship with the social entrepreneur beyond the formal training period.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

However, true culture turnaround requires a complete psychological shift across the entire organization. It is relatively easy for new organizations to start with a clean sheet of paper in creating a culture. But for organizations that have been around for a while, the shift involves quite a bit of shedding and rewiring.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Expert: You have a fairly impressive experience and training with the skill. Organization . Six Sigma techniques. Proficient: You know how to handle particular situations by prioritizing effectively and making decisions more quickly. You do not need rules, guidelines or procedures to execute the job. Conflict management

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Skills Six Sigma Software CRM 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

And most readily admit their organizations are unfit for data. 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. Training and hiring are critical, so we need HR to step up its game.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet." I refer to these "affordable losses" in the interest of learning, creativity, and discovery as "little bets.". This seems like common sense; so why is it so hard?

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Convergence is not simply about combining ideas and technology; it is a primary leadership competency that allows organizations to design the right future. These are structured training and work-study programs that certify a certain level of proficiency, similar to typical green-belt and black-belt programs for Six Sigma initiatives.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

If your company is a successful organization, it has many excellent leaders. But those leaders have had training and experience to succeed in a traditional organization with a C-suite at the top and siloed business units and functions under each executive. He is oriented outward to the full organization. About the Author.

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

While many organizations have generated big returns from process improvement, few have built continuous improvement into their DNA. In 1999, CEO Chad Holliday talked with Larry Bossidy and Jack Welch at GE, and decided to launch a Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. But, most organizations are likely to fail in this pursuit. Visits are carefully planned with the host organization and key questions are crafted in advance.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This mandate, as admirable as it was, clashed with the diminished capacity of the chronically underfunded organization, where in some parts of the country, underpaid physicians were burning out under the weight of rising caseloads. Could the organization turn itself around? Pursue a principles-based organization.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

But because in addition, sales organizations are unique in ways that create singular challenges. Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. That makes training part art, part science, and all on the job. Accounting leaders can look to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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Six Sigma Leadership Metrics Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

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. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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. ” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8