Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Instead, companies must thread the needle, following two rules: First, do all you can to encourage innovation and the growth of specialized language that comes with it.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

All Sorts of Unfortunate Things What Happened to Motorola Chicago Magazine Motorola, the telecom giant that introduced the world to Six Sigma, has had a rough decade. But the company was making a concerted effort to think big — really big — about innovations, so it tried launching the product as an entirely new category.

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Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

People across industries and job segments need hyper-specialized skills to thrive in this environment, and both white and blue-collar jobs will need to innovate to remain relevant. Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0."

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The pilot culminated in a day-long meeting of the senior leadership in which 123 recommendations were reviewed and 116—valued at $104 to $133 million annually or 18 to 24 percent of Banner’s G&A expense—were approved. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers. The characteristics of hardware businesses include long product development cycle, Six Sigma efficiency, and long sales cycle. For example, breakthroughs in battery technology made the electric cars possible. Not, really.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. We've gained a new appreciation for a whole new world of innovation for us to explore. Today, Stephanie A. We learned quite a bit. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D.,

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

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. occupational therapy or rehab), and many more. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

That piece of language, that aspiration, is innovation. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal , which did not get nearly the attention it deserved, made the case that the word "innovation" has outlived its usefulness. But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating. Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!

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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 16

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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