Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you. The Resource: Management Improvement Carnival What it is:  The Management Improvement Carnival is similar to other blog carnivals that you may be familiar with (e.g.

Management 133

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Deming Institute

MARCH 28, 2016

Example: meeting budget, achieving 95% performance in the country on all quality indicators and, having all our staff members on Kaizen events. Many times this is due to requirements from outside agencies (the government or payers) but many times the additional KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are due to requirements from upper management.

Deming 28

Deming Management Kaizen System 28

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. His excitement came from a genuinely ecstatic space, not a feature he donned like a mask to attract attention or influence an outcome. The benefits were significant.

Six Sigma 150

Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

The PwC consultants relentlessly stressed that "customers" were about managing transactions but "clients" were about investing in relationships. But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors? IBM needed to redesign itself around serving clients, not selling customers.

Ulrich 9

Ulrich Kaizen Innovation Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This new function relies less on bold, big-buck (or -euro) initiatives than on pervasively influencing how their firms value, and evaluate, innovation behavior. At one popular QSR chain, managers now ask even entry-level applicants if they’d be willing to help test and improve new foods and service offerings. ” Expensive?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Kaizen KPI 8