Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager. He could go on and say, “The BPI team sees many opportunities to streamline the process and we will use technology to make workflow easier and information transparent to all involved.”

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. By all means, choose a name and stick with it.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement. Change leaders have a North Star — and they talk about it. Implementing the change.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And once they get there, they find that there is no letup, especially today when investor expectations are higher than ever, globalization has made the position a round-the-clock job, and technology hardwires everyone to work. Otherwise, the results are likely to be both personally destructive and ultimately bad for the company.

Career 17

Career Six Sigma Deming Advice 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. Dr. Burns' career has spanned scientific research; issues management; science and technology leadership and business management. Today, Stephanie A.

Govindarajan 15

Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

In the face of such discrepancies, companies usually seek technological solutions, including data integration , enterprise data architecture , and master data management, since the issue presents itself as a tech problem. But such solutions face long odds, because they do not address the problem at its root. Create a common language.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0." Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Time and cost constraints limited these options.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). Six Sigma UX : Successful UX is often about doing less, not more. The value of UX as a corporate asset is no longer in question. Just look at the. $1

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine , exploring cutting-edge ways to improve quality and reduce waste. When we started this mortality-review process, we found care issues or opportunities for improvement approximately 23% of the time. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Disciplined process management: While many aspects of hospital care are not repeatable, many processes are indeed subject to well-established disciplines such as Six Sigma and reengineering. occupational therapy or rehab), and many more. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In the latest issue of Wired , Tim O'Reilly, the brilliant technology thinker and book publisher, offered his corrective on innovation, in this case with respect to entrepreneurs: "The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun.

Innovation 17

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005. PureIt, sold by Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever was not designed in Mexico or in Europe however.

Marketing 11

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

All Sorts of Unfortunate Things What Happened to Motorola Chicago Magazine Motorola, the telecom giant that introduced the world to Six Sigma, has had a rough decade. I thought they were crazy. Now I know they''re not." Its smart phones make up a mere 2% of the global market. No Fighting, Kids Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The characteristics of hardware businesses include long product development cycle, Six Sigma efficiency, and long sales cycle. One factor that will favor digital companies in the industrial internet is technological/scientific breakthroughs that level the playing field for newcomers.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. 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

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The pilot culminated in a day-long meeting of the senior leadership in which 123 recommendations were reviewed and 116—valued at $104 to $133 million annually or 18 to 24 percent of Banner’s G&A expense—were approved. From the Editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine. Capitalize on success.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data. Information & technology Strategy' We need to work aggressively on quality. We saved big time in the areas where we focused. People don’t use data they don’t trust. So we can’t be data-driven without it.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

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. 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.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Methodologies like Six Sigma are all about reducing risk, but they are not effective for innovation because innovation by definition is risky. This is especially true if you do design in innovation: There is risk not just in a process but in the market, in the brand and product you’re going to launch.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8