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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. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured. In the next session, we did some root cause analysis and looked for low-hanging fruit – the solutions you can test fairly quickly.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Root cause analysis. Leadership. 7) Institute modern methods of supervision. 8) Drive out fear.

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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. They’re launching a series of programs bolted-on the side of operations rather than an integrated process of change and transformation. Bolt-On Change Programs.

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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. HealthMind relies on deep-learning techniques for natural language processing, computer vision, and database prediction algorithms. Documenting and data entry.