Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As a project leader/manager one of your primary responsibilities is to increase the absorptive capacity of the project to organizational and community stakeholders. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

It's the "new black," to borrow from a fashion phrase — as well as a reference to its influence on profitability. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. As brand thinking has been institutionalized, management has figured out ways to assign value to this "asset."

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent. Yesterday" is a sunk cost.

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Each factor directly influences convergence, and the three may indirectly influence each other. A few of our clients have set up innovation colleges and universities to teach their leaders, managers, and top talent how to find pivots (and the other four skills mentioned here).

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. At Banner Good Samaritan, as at any hospital, physicians are key leaders and influencers.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

So, you need a leader who can manage all the different phases of design in a very smart way—someone with a holistic vision. Methodologies like Six Sigma are all about reducing risk, but they are not effective for innovation because innovation by definition is risky. There is industrial design. There is interior design.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

People often get too wrapped up in what others will think to focus on what they have to offer, says Katie Orenstein, founder and director of The OpEd Project, a non-profit that empowers women to influence public policy by submitting opinion pieces to newspapers. In fact, confidence is no longer the right word.

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