Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation may be an organization's life blood, but still its success rate in most companies hovers at just 17%. Even innovation leader P&G succeeds less than 50% of the time. What prevents companies from innovating better? So in the end, it's a mixed message: "We want you to innovate, but only after you've done your real job.".

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Set aggressive goals to challenge limiting assumptions and stimulate creative thinking. Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. Be sure you are well prepared.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

With brand relevance, the goal is to make competition irrelevant – to offer something so different and special that it creates its own unique category and customers don’t perceive that there are any alternatives to consider. The brand preference model dictates the objectives and strategy of the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

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. Having started its Lean Six Sigma journey almost five years ago, ADP saw RPA as the obvious next step in its journey to drive efficiency.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

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. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Creativity To Innovation: Implementing Inventive Solutions. Innovation and 21st Century Learning. Innovation and 21st Century Learning. Complexity and Achieving Goals at Work. Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Six Sigma Teams. Below each image is a link to the content.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Leaders have to place strategic changes, initiatives, and goals into a broader organizational context, or they risk losing good talent, burning out managers, and wasting money on programs that don’t pay off. People have to see why what they’re doing has to change, why they should suddenly be moving in a new direction.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

This is meant to be used during the meeting, you should have already chosen the team members , sent out an agenda for the meeting, and developed some goals/tasks to be accomplished. Developing these items will open-up the discussions and innovation to move your team and you forward. Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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." Achieving the project goal within five days requires them to balance results and trust.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Government must adopt innovation practices that mirror those used by leading entrepreneurial companies around the world.

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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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

More recently, we have focused on the value of Lean, Six Sigma , and diversity. For example, you don’t tell people that your primary interest is reducing project implementation time and that the only ideas that will influence you are ones that achieve that goal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The crisis that emerged in the Phoenix VA was triggered by the pursuit of a 14-day wait time goal for all appointments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Outcome-based goals and incentives: Government reimbursement rules have changed so that hospitals cannot charge for readmissions caused by their own errors. Companies such as Cerner, GE, McKesson, Cisco, and others are devoting considerable resources to creating this kind of game-changing capacity.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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