Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

Even seasoned senior managers look to continually enhance their skill sets to differentiate themselves from other job seekers. Management job seekers with lean management experience can separate themselves from the competition. Here are five reasons: Companies Invest in Lean Management, Creating Lean-Related Jobs.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At its core, lean project management is about delivering greater value while minimizing waste. If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Here’s how to get started. How to Identify Waste Activities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. We have a deep desire to use our unique skills and perspectives to make our own decisions about how to help our teams succeed.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

Brian Joiner also expressed this idea well : Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.”. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

CEOs are increasingly adding the CDO role to their management teams to tackle the big business issues that come with data. The chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of a consumer product company is struggling to manage end-user consent data. Enter the chief data officer, or CDO. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

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