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Quality Team and Leadership Development

Mike Cardus

Outcomes Include: Enhanced accomplishment of goals on-time within quality specifications and within budget. Capitalizing upon the innovation and motivation of the people who work along with you to complete the work. Great leadership is one of the most valued of all human activities.

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How to Identify Your Project Stakeholders Interest

Mike Cardus

You’ve made inferences about what matters to the person based on his/her position, department goals, public behavior and comments ? Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. You’ve checked with others who know this person better and are in a better position to ask about interests ?

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9 Team Dynamics That Get Results

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio 9 Team Dynamics That Get Results Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission 1. Establish a set of goals & objectives – in any team recognition and understanding of the goal is paramount.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

To be clear, however, the match between RPA and business processes isn’t a perfect one if the goal is to redesign or improve the process rather than to automate its current state. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.”

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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Three Examples of New Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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 keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems.