Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. To close this gap, leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) the United States.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. We bring everybody together in a work group and create an integrated strategy on how they'll work together.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". 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 To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

It was given a big boost during the 1970s when the Experience Curve was lifted from the manufacturing floor and adopted as a strategy tool in the corporate board room. And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Strategies for staying ahead. Insight Center.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The result was disastrous, as the company suffered numerous missteps in rolling out new channel strategies and overhauling back-end systems. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Reluctant to oppose a leader who had dramatically increased shareholder value, the board folded under pressure and ratified the CEO’s pick.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade. They'll need practical strategies for re-skilling. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? The answer is “yes.”

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

To gain some real end-to-end experience — perhaps making a concerted effort to try out advanced analytics in the hiring process, improve content in financial reporting, bring more data to decisions made by the senior team, and improve the quality of data used in marketing. Information & technology Strategy'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The result was disastrous, as the company suffered numerous missteps in rolling out new channel strategies and overhauling back-end systems. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Reluctant to oppose a leader who had dramatically increased shareholder value, the board folded under pressure and ratified the CEO’s pick.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

One example is six sigma , where a company seeks to have no more than 3.4 Strategy development is a case in point. A company can devise a wonderful strategy that fails as the result of bad luck. Michael Raynor, a consultant at Deloitte, shares the example of Sony's strategy for the MiniDisc.

Skills 8

Skills Six Sigma Incentives Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The company in our story got so excited by its process blueprints that it forgot to develop a clear financial case. The system must be reviewed and validated by finance.

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

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. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. This requires developing creative approaches to finding new ideas from outside of healthcare. The development of Memorial’s Heart and Vascular building is another example of ideas inspired by innovisits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Earlier this year we sent a 10-employee team of Dow Corning volunteers from around the globe — our Citizen Service Corps — to Bangalore, India, to serve, discover and innovate with NGOs and other social enterprises, while searching for new thinking about how we could apply our business strategy and processes in emerging markets.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement. Whatever they are, the more specific, the better.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76