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Proven: Follow a Systematic Approach For A Huge Change In Bottomline Results

Six Disciplines

A key premise behind Six Disciplines has been to help people and their organizations develop a process for planning and execution. It doesn't depend on the industry. We are often asked by prospective clients what is the ROI on the Six Disciplines process. In the study, they examined over 600 company's results over 10 years.

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Case Study: Adopting a Deming Management System in a Service Company

Deming Institute

Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a This document explores implementing these ideas in the service industry. It is less commonly an active part of the management culture to train, nurture and value all the minds in the organization. The thesis aims to.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. But pursuing incremental improvements while rivals reinvent the industry is like fiddling while Rome burns.” The benefits were significant. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation.

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2015 Deming Prize Winners

Deming Institute

One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). GS Yuasa Corporation, Industrial Battery Production Division, Industrial Batteries and Power Sources Business Unit (Japan). The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2015 Deming Prize winners.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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My business book of the week - Understanding the small business sector - by David Storey

Chartered Management Institute

Time at Work How your values drive your success Candidates are lying throughout recruitment Government launches new strategy for industry. Related Content: Calling a halt to mindless change - 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet? You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).