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 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. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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

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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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. We've gained a new appreciation for a whole new world of innovation for us to explore. Today, Stephanie A. We learned quite a bit.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

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. Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0."

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 18

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. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? Mastery of hard science is a pre-requisite to develop software-based solutions on the hardware. For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

All Sorts of Unfortunate Things What Happened to Motorola Chicago Magazine Motorola, the telecom giant that introduced the world to Six Sigma, has had a rough decade. Kraft Foods had been selling Crystal Light, a line of artificially sweetened water flavorings, in powder form for decades when it developed a liquid version.

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Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

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