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Improving Your Company Starts with You

Strategy Driven

And while this can work in a relatively stable organization without any significant leadership issues, it’s the wrong approach if you’ve never put any thought into your own leadership capabilities, as well as those of other people in important positions. Advanced Leadership Methodologies. Do You Understand Finances?

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. 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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Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. Engage the finance organization. Finance was on board at the company in our story. One way to engage the finance function, as practiced by GE and other disciples of Six Sigma, is to build a system tracking the financial benefits of each improvement project.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments.

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

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. The list goes on and on.

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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness

Harvard Business Review

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.