Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 7c - Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Inventory ! Consider leaving a comment!

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. Using change management methods, HR can truly take on the role of facilitator of organizational success. Project Management.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Project 124

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2013

Maybe you’re a manager, and you’re just concerned about identifying and grooming successors for you own position, so that you’ll have a replacement ready when it’s time for you to move up or on. Managers often find it challenging to identify specific skills required for a role. Led a multi-function, diverse team.

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Planning Skills Development Six Sigma 238

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, came out with a research report last year that showed 90 percent of employees are either not aligned with organizational goals or not engaged and giving their best efforts. Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. What can be done?

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation. The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. They empowered those most affected by the problems to come up with solutions, and fostered a team-based process improvement approach. Executing Strategy. Developing Teams. Implementing a Change Management Approach.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Contemporary management practices are geared toward ensuring stability and predictability, and avoiding surprises or ‘problems.’ ’ But innovation is unpredictable, even disruptive. Ironically, this only kills productivity in the long run. Shift Your Understanding.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This session is for senior operating executives and organization/leadership development support professionals such as HR, Learning/Training, Organization Development, Safety, Lean/Six Sigma, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Service.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment. Suppressing Innovation. About the Author.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. The Peak Performance Balance: Managing Things and Leading People.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Management and Leadership Development – strengthening supervisory, management, and executive skills around an XYZ model of managerial competencies. So accountability and performance management of those at the end of the product or service chain is highly demotivating and unproductive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Perhaps worst of all, they are forced to abandon old approaches that worked.

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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. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. Pilots got a lot better.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. For instance, we have a course for mid-level executives, called the Manager Development Course (MDC).

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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. A high performing project manager needs a way to track projects from start to finish, get the team on board to work together towards a common goal and get more done on time and under budget. Accountability.

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Project Six Sigma Management Delegation 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

These layoffs are usually driven by small teams who look for opportunities to "right size" departments. For example, at Bank of America, 44 senior bank managers and about two dozen consultants worked on a cost-cutting initiative called "Project New BAC". They analyzed costs, set targets, and met with business and functional units.

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Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

At frog, we hear the same things from executives in financial services, healthcare, and infrastructure. 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."

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This view differs substantially from the relentless focus on efficiency that has characterized management thinking for most of the last three decades, but it is absolutely essential if companies are going to spur innovation and reignite profitable growth. Let me explain.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

But those leaders have had training and experience to succeed in a traditional organization with a C-suite at the top and siloed business units and functions under each executive. The question is, do your executives have the skills and experience to lead a cross-functional process focused organization? What’s in it for Me?

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This sense of being pushed and pulled every which way – without having any broader context or a sense that you’re getting somewhere – is something I see all too often in organizations, as executives try to keep up with new competitors or business trends.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. To compound this problem, the project team declared victory after having only a process design and an energized work force.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. 3 Steps to Improve Results of Employees & Management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. This problem is not limited to top management, however.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Incremental Improvement. Sustaining Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Walk the talk.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

With all the excitement (and anxiety) surrounding big data and advanced analytics, it is not surprising that many organizations are naming Chief Data Officers (CDO) to manage their data needs. You don’t need a Chief Data Officer to put basic data management capabilities in place. We need to work aggressively on quality.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 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. Once they find it, they work on finding radical ideas and developing business proposals for top executives to review.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making. P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Corporate executives often don’t understand that there are different kinds of design: There is brand design. So, you need a leader who can manage all the different phases of design in a very smart way—someone with a holistic vision. What does a design team look like at PepsiCo? There is industrial design.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 11

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. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit.

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