Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Under #3, determine how to deal with “Accountability&#. Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills. Oct 2010 Another great post I would add 2 others items. Under #2, have rules to accept new team members and rules to exclude existing team members.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes. An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Boards, and companies’ governance processes, are idiosyncratic; exactly how to focus on what’s really needed in the next CEO will depend on the firm. They consciously left out operational goals, because most directors agreed the CEO could rely on the existing business unit heads, and a capable COO could also be hired from outside.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes. They foul up everything they touch , adding costs to operations, angering customers, and making it more difficult to make good decisions. For bad data don't just bedevil Big Data.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

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. General Electric Operations' They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Boards, and companies’ governance processes, are idiosyncratic; exactly how to focus on what’s really needed in the next CEO will depend on the firm. They consciously left out operational goals, because most directors agreed the CEO could rely on the existing business unit heads, and a capable COO could also be hired from outside.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

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 succinctly provide not only why to debrief, but how to conduct an effective debrief.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

An alternative approach to cost cutting is built into the "Six Sigma" methodology as popularized by GE. The quoted financial savings from Six Sigma projects, while valid, aren't having long-term effects on their cost structure. But the cost-cutting scalpel is simplistic and can wound sound operations and valuable people.

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Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

So it's a fair bet that when the sequester's dust has settled, government may once again turn to (or have thrust on them) the latest business bestsellers as "how-to" guides for avoiding the next crisis. Millions are being invested by Cisco, IBM, Phillips, and other global companies to help cities and countries operate efficiently.

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Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Or how welders working on wind turbines now need specialized degrees and the ability to read CAD blueprints or LEED certification requirements. As a society, we must figure out how to rapidly re-skill vast number of people on an ongoing basis to both remain relevant globally and to avoid long periods of high unemployment.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

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." They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2019

Learning how to effectively use data is highly individual to each company and their operations and KPIs, but there are some building blocks for good data hygiene and usage that work across all sectors and business types. So, how can you stop drowning in data and start using it to your advantage?

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Planning Six Sigma Metrics CRM 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management. From January 2010, when the quality review board became operational, to December 2012, 230 QIPs were reviewed and 168 (73%) of them were approved for Part IV MOC.

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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results. Old assumptions about how to pay for what we need must be discarded. We can't continue to ignore harsh truths about extreme weather.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This blog focuses on how to motivate, engage, and coach the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner during a Business Process Improvement (BPI) project. This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager. Want to learn more about BPM metrics?

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Human factors science, which studies the relationship between human beings and systems in order to improve efficiency, safety, and effectiveness, is now being applied broadly in health care in everything from information management to the design of operating rooms. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Disciplined process management: While many aspects of hospital care are not repeatable, many processes are indeed subject to well-established disciplines such as Six Sigma and reengineering. Hospitals of course will never be simple.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector. .” ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

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. In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.” What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Here's how to do that and get into the virtuous cycle that Schwartz describes. He had worked as a business fellow for the previous year but had recently taken on the role of director of operations and service lines. He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. Preparation.

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Six Sigma How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 17

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In his first book, NINCOMPOOPERY: Why Your Customers Hate You-and How to Fix It , he leverages research across thousands of companies to show leaders how to find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. For more information, see NINCOMPOOPERY: Why Your Customers Hate You-and How to Fix It.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76