The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last week’s follow up leadership and culture development webinar is now available for you to review. The session outlined our implementation steps, approaches, and Client examples for leadership, organization, and culture development. Click here to view the Practical Leadership and Culture Development Services webinar.

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Webinar Six Sigma Development Senge 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business. Properly assisting executives and managers of the organization in sustaining reliability in all the business processes.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. They empowered those most affected by the problems to come up with solutions, and fostered a team-based process improvement approach. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers.

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Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. History teaches that tectonic change can be an agent of organizational destruction or renewal. It all depends on how we respond. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

But for this to truly be the case, innovation should not be something that happens every once in a while; it should be viewed as a critical competence – a skill to be developed, fostered, rewarded, and embedded into the workforce. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components. Personal development (or self awareness being the more accurate description) does not come from reading a few books or attending the odd seminar. But many companies are older organizations and are simply staid and entrenched.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. the United States.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. At GE, we use our corporate university to “inspire, connect, and develop.” We try and make it transformative.

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Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 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. Will Duke is Afterburner’s Director of Learning and Development.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Many executives have never recognized this pattern of serial adoption of different approaches to what is essentially the same topic. Here's this new approach.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. At frog, we hear the same things from executives in financial services, healthcare, and infrastructure. But that was a foreign idea not so long ago.

Strategy 8

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. The retiring leader advocated strongly for an executive he had groomed for the job, in his own image.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too. The smart building router was the first product developed by the team in Bangalore first for the Indian market but is now available globally.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

A commercial leader in financial services moved over to a health care business, bringing with her the ability to structure deals and work closely with C-suite executives. The HR system for developing a pipeline of talent should be carefully constructed to put individuals in roles like these to broaden their leadership competencies.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. The retiring leader advocated strongly for an executive he had groomed for the job, in his own image.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. To compound this problem, the project team declared victory after having only a process design and an energized work force.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In this case the leadership team decided to focus on creating long-term value, not quarter-by-quarter improvement, through a values-based culture with empowered employees. Through leadership development programs, Six Sigma, and constant communication we made long-term investments in our people.

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Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 12

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. 10 Team Dynamics That All Great Teams Share.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Last year, NBA teams played 66 games during the shortened season and the NHL will play 48 games this year (a full season is 82 games for both leagues). A closer examination of the truncated seasons offers some useful lessons for executives. Sixty-six games for the NBA is plenty to allow the top teams to climb to the surface.

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Skills Six Sigma Incentives Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. Over the years, we’ve shifted from thinking of the leader as hero, to thinking of the leader as visionary, strategist, creator of culture, and team builder. We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. Developing employees Managing people Employee retention'

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. changing opportunities for your organization.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Incremental Improvement. Maybe you need a new vendor.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

To gain some real end-to-end experience — perhaps making a concerted effort to try out advanced analytics in the hiring process, improve content in financial reporting, bring more data to decisions made by the senior team, and improve the quality of data used in marketing. It is important to think through organizational implications.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Corporate executives often don’t understand that there are different kinds of design: There is brand design. The new design function and the new culture need to be protected by the CEO or by somebody at the executive level. What does a design team look like at PepsiCo? That’s where many organizations make mistakes.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn firsthand how they were assembled. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I recently took another look at my 553 hours of interviews with 380 executives, managers and contributors to see why some managers emerge as change leaders. Planning how to accomplish the change.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely. Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely. Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Kaiser Permanente has sponsored similar excursions.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

But in most cases, it’s still falling well short of its full potential because it either lacks or fails to tightly integrate with the mechanisms needed to systematically capture lessons learned and share them outside the team. Develop a version rapidly and test it with customers, ideally in a real-world competitive situation.

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Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8