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Untangling the Accountability, Systems, and Process Management Knot

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Accountability is a mess in many organizations.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. What’s Your OS (Operating System): Is Technology Supporting or Controlling?

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. Root cause analysis. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Marketing mix. How to apply the model. Leadership.

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

A CoE is a team of data scientists, business analysts and domain experts from various business functions — sales, marketing, finance, and R&D, for example — that are brought together to facilitate a cross-pollination of experiences and ideas to find solutions to a variety of business goals. Develop a robust root cause analysis capability.

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

A CoE is a team of data scientists, business analysts and domain experts from various business functions — sales, marketing, finance, and R&D, for example — that are brought together to facilitate a cross-pollination of experiences and ideas to find solutions to a variety of business goals. Make collaborative decisions.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

First, Maryann Keller, a former auto analyst, notes that, historically, GM hasn’t invested in root-cause analysis. .” At GM, despite the company’s insistence that its culture is changing, there are a few key sticking points worth examining. So it had to use the washer fluid itself to cool down.”