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Vital Keys to Leading a Fast, Flexible, and Agile Organization

The Practical Leader

When we started our coaching and consulting work with his leadership team, it soon became clear they were frantically implementing a partial and piecemeal effort. Line Management Led. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Experts/Specialist Led.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Root cause analysis. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools. Cause and effect diagram.

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“Nailed it.” A lesson in overcoming project complexity

Deming Institute

Having been a consultant/leader with a Big 4 firm, my project experience is extensive and varied. In the next session, we did some root cause analysis and looked for low-hanging fruit – the solutions you can test fairly quickly. Project work sometimes got complicated, and we’d have to resort to heroic measures to finish.

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How Companies Are Using Machine Learning to Get Faster and More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

The upshot of HealthMind is that doctors spend less time interpreting images and more time consulting with their patients. Root cause analysis. But it’s already clear that machine-reengineering has the power to help manage the data deluge — and resulting bottlenecks — that modern organizations face.

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Is It Ever OK to Break Into Your Colleague’s Computer?

Harvard Business Review

Rick was looking for Kelly, one of the analysts who supported his consulting team. Steve, a portfolio manager for a major mutual fund company, understood that his company monitored internet use of all employees. I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm.

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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking

Harvard Business Review

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. identify and consult with key stakeholders across departments and business units. check the strategic plan.