Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. Leadership Lip Service: Behaviors Undefined and Underdeveloped. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work. Poor Assessment of Systems/Processes and Perceptions/Attitudes.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently I worked with the senior leadership team of a large warehouse and logistics company. As I listened to their leaders focus on hard processes, metrics, and systems it became crystal clear that the “soft skills” of leadership and culture weren’t even on their radar. A major part of that problem is turnover.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Teams must have leadership. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Complimentary Resource – Shifting the Focus for Profitability.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Leadership and Management. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. ” Want More? References. 2010, January).

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Managers find something wrong (i.e. What do you think?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

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. He also serves as a consultant to process and continuous improvement management programs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This view differs substantially from the relentless focus on efficiency that has characterized management thinking for most of the last three decades, but it is absolutely essential if companies are going to spur innovation and reignite profitable growth. In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

drama's main players about leadership, negotiation, and protecting our (national) brand. Of course, government has long looked to business for new ways of managing. Bush's President's Management Agenda , and President Obama appointed the country's first Chief Performance Officer. Big data is rolling in after it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To manage the rising tide of knowledge work performed by a younger generation of employees, Process Strategy 2.0

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Examples Process Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Gruenfeld, the Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He had worked as a business fellow for the previous year but had recently taken on the role of director of operations and service lines.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. What can we learn from this failure?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. A few said it was because people didn't follow the methodology (e.g.,

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

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