Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. Project managers who incorporate change management into their projects facilitate smoother implementations by addressing the people element up front.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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

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 answer is “yes.”

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Compare this number to the slowest growth categories — Postal Service Mail Carriers and switchboard operators — where the majority of positions (up to 82 percent) are classified as low-skilled, and you can sense a real problem. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning.

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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. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

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

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Since engineering was on a tight schedule and physical prototypes were months away from being ready, we elected to do “paper prototyping,” where we showed drawings to users of the modules with different latch designs. We wanted to find the most intuitive design for the rotating latches on either side of each module.

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Six Sigma Sample Innovation Productivity 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.” Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Banner’s leaders used its G&A success to extend the optimization program to its clinical operations, starting with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, the system’s flagship teaching hospital in Phoenix. By the end of 2012, the first year of implementation, Banner captured $31 million in G&A savings. . Capitalize on success.

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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

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

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

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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. A car is more than its engine.

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