Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Teams must have leadership. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Having my start in training and development while working for Bic in Charlotte NC. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. That time really impacted my life.

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Team Building Training Team Teamwork 123

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). And "What can we do now to ensure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past?"

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

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. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM?

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 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. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life. Operations Organizational culture' Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1. Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. The company in our story got so excited by its process blueprints that it forgot to develop a clear financial case. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. What can we learn from this failure?

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. And by training them, you can demonstrate your commitment to their development.

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? 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. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 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. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); These efforts have paid huge dividends.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Gruenfeld, the Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Gruenfeld suggests asking someone who cares about your development as well as the quality of your performance to tell you what she thinks.

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Six Sigma How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 16

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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