Roles and contexts increasingly call for improvisation as opposed to experience, or resourcefulness as opposed to resources. At GE, we have used “integration leader” (of an acquisition) and Six Sigma Black Belt roles to broaden individuals at the mid-management level so they can better adapt to future opportunities. Human resources Leadership Leadership development MORE

Human Resources. As the designated “people people” in most organizations, human resources professionals are often seen as responsible for organizational features like culture, employee satisfaction, and employee performance. Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. MORE

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Streamlining a process with Lean Six Sigma fits this mental model: you focus your product development on making things perfect before releasing them to the market. Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? MORE

Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. Human Resource practice is bound by regulations and case law stipulating what is acceptable and what is not. If I had to single out the leadership job that's hardest to do, I'd say head of sales. And not just because sales brings in the revenue and tends to feel the friction from the external environment first, though both are certainly true. MORE

Accordingly, Jack Welch’s drive to Six Sigma involved an intense focus on controlling costs, quality, and execution on both the infrastructure and behavioral sides (e.g., Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. MORE

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Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.". Change management Human resources OperationsIf you picked a dream team to improve the way your organization does business, who would be on it? I know who would be on my team. MORE

Some of GE’s best-known initiatives — WorkOut; CAP; Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma; Leadership, Innovation, and Growth ; and, more recently, Simplification — took shape at Crotonville. Education General Electric Human resources Leadership development If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. MORE