N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members. Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. Organizations implementing Lean may achieve up to a 40% boost in efficiency, per the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the first phase, they highlight how companies were focused on process improvement via approaches such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. For more traditional organizations, this is probably where many HR functions still reside, their work very much focused around eking as much out efficiency from the workforce as possible.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Rarely will incremental change or implementing current practices more efficiently or faster be enough. Two sections of our web site deal with culture change. One is a series of articles and the other is past blogs on the topic. Often their intentions are strong but their understanding of just what it takes is weak.

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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 9

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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers.

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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. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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