Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The visionary small business expert Anita Campbell over at Small Business Trends , reveals some of the research we conducted here at Six Disciplines. Her post Top Five Secrets of Small Business Success focuses in particular about the reliance on trusted outside advisors.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 22, 2015

BOTTOMLINE: For small and midsized businesses to remain competitive, a formalized process of knowledge transfer (of trends, policies, procedures, information gathering, competitive intelligence, and so on.) must be deployed. to share, capture, retain, and disseminate the knowledge.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 23, 2015

Although surveying is a readily available service from other providers the Six Disciplines offering provides advanced functionality by integrating trended results tracking into the strategic and operating goals of the organization. It is now an integral part of Six Disciplines strategy execution program.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The same holds true with the introduction (transplant or transfer) of a new system (a new idea, business-building method, best-practices, business improvement processes), the productivity curve drops (wilts) - but given proper support and care, the productivity curve loops upward on a continuous positive trend.

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Intangible Assets How To Human Resources Budgeting 95

Six Disciplines

JULY 19, 2013

The ability to benchmark your organization''s performance - run it again in the future for comparisons, trends, change. Fast turn-around (7-10 days from payment and receipt of email address list, to full presentation of assessment results). In-depth recommendations based on the seven key dimensions of performance excellence.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 8, 2011

" The Keys to Strategy Execution: A Global Study of Current Trends and Future Possibilities ", was a research study commissioned by the American Management Association and conducted by the Human Resource Institute. The research identified the leading obstacles that hinder strategy execution - and what companies can do to overcome them.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 11, 2013

The ability to benchmark your organization's performance - run it again in the future for comparisons, trends, change. Fast turn-around (7-10 days from payment and receipt of email address list, to full presentation of assessment results). In-depth recommendations based on the seven key dimensions of performance excellence.

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Benchmarking Comparison Maturity Analysis 78

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

What's more, it seems that this trend is here to stay. A study published in the Harvard Business Review, which analyzed 1,471 IT projects, found that the average overrun was 27%, but one in six projects had a cost overrun of 200% on average and a schedule overrun of almost 70%.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 28, 2011

” ~ Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends. “Six Disciplines is unlike anything I've seen for small businesses. It's a book. It's a methodology. It's technology. It's a coaching system. It's something you'll be hearing a lot more about.”

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Trends CEO Execution Energy 101

Six Disciplines

JUNE 8, 2012

The ability to benchmark your organization's performance - run it again in the future for comparisons, trends, change. Fast turn-around (7-10 days from payment and receipt of email address list, to full presentation of assessment results). In-depth recommendations based on the seven key dimensions of performance excellence.

Benchmarking 74

Benchmarking Maturity Comparison Analysis 74

Six Disciplines

JUNE 8, 2012

The ability to benchmark your organization's performance - run it again in the future for comparisons, trends, change. Fast turn-around (7-10 days from payment and receipt of email address list, to full presentation of assessment results). In-depth recommendations based on the seven key dimensions of performance excellence.

Benchmarking 70

Benchmarking Maturity Comparison Analysis 70

Six Disciplines

MARCH 1, 2012

BOTTOMLINE: Many manufacturing companies rely on Six Disciplines as their manufacturing execution system, because of its powerful measurement and data trending functionality. Those using "manufacturing execution systems" and operational dashboards are "more likely to have made greater business performance improvements than others.".

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. This kind of closeness to customers means the people in the company know customer issues and they can spot changing market needs earlier. Attracting Team Members.

Customer Intimacy 133

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 133

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Key predictions include: Organizations will need to plan for increasingly chaotic environments that are out of their direct control, and adaptation must involve adjusting to all 10 of the trends.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Key predictions include: Organizations will need to plan for increasingly chaotic environments that are out of their direct control, and adaptation must involve adjusting to all 10 of the trends.

Agility 133

Agility Insurance Influence Content 133

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. This kind of closeness to customers means the people in the company know customer issues and they can spot changing market needs earlier. Attracting Team Members.

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Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 116

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Anita Campbell, SMB Trend Wire). ” (Gary Slinger, Slinger’s Thoughts). “Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” “However, the power of this book is in how it integrates these time tested, common sense ideas into a useful whole.”

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Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

In this discipline, we help you to design how Six Disciplines will be implemented in your organization, how to manage the strategy execution process, how to benchmark how time is being used, survey stakeholder satisfaction, review external trends and internal results, complete a corporate SWOT, and update the self-leadership plan (performance reviews/appraisals, (..)

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