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.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The Challenges for Digital Natives.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

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. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning.

Skills 17

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. Google's engineering culture is a good example of a management system geared for speed. I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". is all about: 1.

Process 8

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 Use Convergence Thinking.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 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. The resulting new products are often too expensive, too complicated, too different from what customers want, and too late to market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 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. The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless. These efforts have paid huge dividends.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 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. ” Here are the six most common mistakes we see: Asking employees to generate ideas without creating mechanisms to do something with them.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8