Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

You will leave with a clear and distinct understanding of what Quality-Leadership within your work and life is, and how to maximize the talent you already have to continually improve the quality of your organization, team and people. How to determine strengths and constraints in other leaders and what to do about it. Learn More.

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Quality Leadership Development Six Sigma Development 138

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2013

In the example above, there’s no guarantee the candidate is actually going to learn how to think strategically by doing that mix of activities. They may learn how to plan, delegate, develop a strategy, influence, and who knows what else, but never learn how to think. Led a six-sigma project. in a difference way.

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Planning Skills Development Six Sigma 238

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams Thursday, October 07th, 2010 Posted by: mike ASQ Buffalo NY Lean Six Sigma Conference. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference.

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Six Sigma Development Team Workshop 108

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio How to Identify Project Stakeholders Interest Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 Posted by: mike Attempting to institute new projects and processes within an existing culture can prove to be Sisyphean. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. All rights reserved. Saving face ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 16, 2013

Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. Some of the more prominent approaches include Total Quality Management, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, Six Sigma, ISO-9000, and Lean Manufacturing. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 91

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Here’s how to get started. How to Apply Lean Project Management Methodology. How to Identify Waste Activities. Implement Lean Six Sigma (DMEDI). In that sense, this approach will help you improve quality while decreasing the cost of production — but where do you begin? Improved team collaboration.

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Project Management Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing 87

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 6, 2012

One thing that we feel is the benefit of lean and Six Sigma is actually the return on investment in these programs,” he said. So how can you ensure that your process improvement efforts are being tracked effectively? Where’s the cash?”.

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ROI Process Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing 86

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. Some of the more prominent approaches include Total Quality Management, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, Six Sigma, ISO-9000, and Lean Manufacturing. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 78

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

You have to know how to optimize the performance of every unit of the organization, seek out opportunities for sustainable growth, and perhaps most important of all, know how to talk to your employees in a way that allows you to understand their concerns.

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Six Sigma Company CPA Finance 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. How to Turn Problems into Opportunities ! How to Turn Problems into Opportunities appeared first on StrategyDriven. Relate Articles: How to Turn Disagreements into Great Decisions for Your Small Business.

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Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. Perhaps it’s an over-reliance on highly data-driven methodologies like Six Sigma or lean.

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Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

All of this means knowing how to truly listen. StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 31 – How to Better Engage Employees. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven' Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

In the general population of professionals, many people don’t know their job would be much easier and less frustrating if they considered themselves change agents and learned how to implement and influence change effectively. Process Improvement.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In looking at how to tackle that the idea what matters is not what is the biggest problem to address but what are the solutions that have the biggest potential is discussed (Roger played a video by Bjorn Lomborg making this point). Edwards Deming’s vision for the result of adopting the ideas he promoted.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Ability to state what is working and how to improve – Teams need an Understanding that problems DON’T equal solutions; Solutions = Solutions. Teams must quickly acknowledge that a problem exists then work to determine what will take the place of the problem, how the solution will function and work. Share let us know.

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Team Six Sigma Project Committee 136

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

To end blame and bickering, they came together to find their common goals, to discover each other’s strengths and personalities, and to learn how to communicate effectively. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. Adopting a Process Framework.

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Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 31, 2012

Students are graded on how much they know, not on the degree to which they learn from [.]. In Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, Paul J. Schoemaker observes, “Our schools and organizations are designed for efficiency and order. These are fine principles but rarely encourage mistakes, either brilliant or foolish.

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How To Efficiency Succession Six Sigma 103

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 31 – How to Better Engage Employees. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven' Relate Articles: 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As such, it becomes imperative to develop competence at knowing how to listen for, design, and intervene in the critical conversations of the business as they literally shape the future. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Specifically, become highly focused on who you are, what you stand for, and what your purpose is; identify the Top 20 Percent, Vital 70 Percent, and Bottom 10 Percent for each area of your life; achieve Six Sigma in all key aspects of your life and strive to accept nothing less than your best. The Not-So-Golden Rule.

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Six Sigma How To Self-aware Bottom-up 280

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. But, at a high level, it is a three-part process: Start with an exploration of likely scenarios for the company in the next several years.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

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. Since the data originate from many sources, you must assign managers to cross-functional processes and to important external suppliers, and ensure that data creators understand what is expected.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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. This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. Incremental Improvement. Sustaining Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

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

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

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. But, at a high level, it is a three-part process: Start with an exploration of likely scenarios for the company in the next several years.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance. By Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. By Jeremy Hope and Steve Player.

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Six Sigma Meyer Books Mission Statement 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

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Team Building meaning allowing the team to know why it is together; working through a purposeful process to develop trust early on, and building the team to have shared expectations and knowledge of what to do and how to do it. Resist the temptation to push for a lot of task-oriented work at the initial meeting.

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Project Team Tips Succession 133

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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Here''s an example of this pattern: Over the course of several years, a major healthcare company introduced thousands of managers to a particular change management approach, while providing more intensive training in specific tools and techniques to six sigma and HR experts.

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Six Sigma Management Parcell Kotter 11

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. Companies launch process improvement projects with hard financial targets.

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Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

That’s not the book I’d want to hand out to my management team to teach them how to lead, but I know of a few CEOs who have. I recently attended a fascinating webinar by MIT Sloan Professor Nelson Repenning that explained why proven capability building processes and tools like LEAN and Six-Sigma often go unused.

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