Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Process champions must have them ready for the day when the CEO or CFO effectively says, "Show me the money.". One way to engage the finance function, as practiced by GE and other disciples of Six Sigma, is to build a system tracking the financial benefits of each improvement project. Engage the finance organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

More recently, we have focused on the value of Lean, Six Sigma , and diversity. In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization.

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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). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.

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