Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Premium Tactical Execution eliminated non-value-added work Greg Gaskey lean six sigma operational efficiency strategydriven'

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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation. Properly assisting executives and managers of the organization in sustaining reliability in all the business processes. It gets facilitated by Business Process modeling by; ?

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science. And he discusses six sigma (which certainly has issues) but as I have written before if you want to learn what value six sigma offers listen to what Roger (and others such as Ron Snee, Gerry Hahn…) say.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Decision-Making Warning Flag 2 – The Silent Nod.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Defining and Managing the Category or Subcategory. Understanding and managing relevance can be the difference between winning by becoming isolated from competitors or being mired in a difficult market environment where differentiation is hard to achieve and often short-lived.” Evaluating a Concept’s Prospects.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

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. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. GE has actively created several “ecosystems” with start-ups.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. These are "people skills.". But it's also unusual.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2016

Ask any project manager, and you’ll hear that one of the top problems that they face is a high tolerance for failure. However, we certainly do not extend the same liberty to other professions like engineers, doctors and pilots. Let’s take a look at the seven pain points of project management that managers face: Organization.

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Project Six Sigma Management Delegation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. As brand thinking has been institutionalized, management has figured out ways to assign value to this "asset." So, if you are an enlightened executive in the post-Steve Jobs era, how do you grow and manage this emerging corporate asset?

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management.

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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Today, Americans must put Toffler's words to action, retooling America's economic engine: 155 million workers strong. While there is the obvious bookwork, both programs require specific on-the-job training.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

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. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To manage the rising tide of knowledge work performed by a younger generation of employees, Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

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. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious Think Frugally.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.) But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. 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. And it’s not just your company.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

As an approach, lean innovation lends itself especially well to corporate cultures, often engineering ones and others strongly focused on process-improvement programs such as Six Sigma. And when the learnings are captured in a knowledge management system, revenue jumps again.

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Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

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. Many of the most common missteps we see companies make would fit nicely in Steve Kerr’s management classic , “The folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.”

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8