Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

.  The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

Management 133

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

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. In that type of culture, continuous improvement is just that – continuous.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

The leagues play an identical number of games during the same time of year and the sports have a like number of players in the game at a time. When a sport has lots of skill and little luck, you don't need a large sample size to determine which team or individual is more skillful. These situations seem similar on the surface.

Skills 8

Skills Six Sigma Incentives Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Your parents wanted you to achieve, achieve, achieve — in sports, the classroom, and scouting or work. 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."

Creativity 14

Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 14

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. This applies not only to the current portfolio of products, but also to PepsiCo’s future portfolio.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8