HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Innovation . Six Sigma techniques. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. “But they are not set up to take risks, to be innovative, and try new things out,” Altman adds. Dynamic, innovative, changing, and constantly learning: This is the new reality. It may be a tough message.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. One failing in most business improvement approaches is the tendency to develop new or ideal processes on paper, without addressing elements of human behavior and human nature.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. Shift Your Understanding.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio 8 Ways You, team-member, Can Do Your Best Work Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Posted by: mike Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams. michael cardus is create-learning Referenced From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste. Lock in and Engage Top Talent. Set the Stage for Engagement.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ? Concerns about a relationship ? michael cardus is create-learning image by by Emergency Photography.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? We've found that these questions point to a new need for innovative cultures in the world today (distinct from innovative companies ). Note that even without data from China, Asia is bubbling with interest in innovation.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation may be an organization's life blood, but still its success rate in most companies hovers at just 17%. Even innovation leader P&G succeeds less than 50% of the time. What prevents companies from innovating better? So in the end, it's a mixed message: "We want you to innovate, but only after you've done your real job.".

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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. Absolutely not!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. Tip #6: Ask “When?”

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Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

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.” Education General Electric Human resources Leadership development'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

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). Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

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. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. How the most innovative providers are creating value. But what about our patients? Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Health Care Six Sigma Metrics Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

People across industries and job segments need hyper-specialized skills to thrive in this environment, and both white and blue-collar jobs will need to innovate to remain relevant. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Similarly, modern industrial management is still predicated largely on mitigating risks and preventing errors, not innovating or inventing. Bill Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett Packard, an ardent proponent of what he called "small bet" innovation, found that HP needed to make 100 small bets to find 6 breakthroughs.

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Another formula is to introduce a new and fashionable management practice, such as Six Sigma, Lean, or the ancient Total Quality Management and ISO9000. Not coincidentally, the list of superior companies frequently starts unravelling when the book is still at the printer''s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. 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. Find Pivots. Overturn Orthodoxies.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Creativity To Innovation: Implementing Inventive Solutions. High Performance Team Development & Leadership Workshop with Executive MBA’s. Innovation and 21st Century Learning. Innovation and 21st Century Learning. Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Six Sigma Teams.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I was reminded of this painful memory recently, while reading Jeffrey Rothfeder’s Driving Honda , which examines the company’s innovation culture. But innovators should keep some rules of thumb in mind: All prototypes have limitations and ways in which they are going to bias users and the results.

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