Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Do you have a process improvement program under way that you feel is going well? A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. Sure, there were pictures, process charts, videos, and energized people, and that was all good stuff.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". 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 People weighed in, and then they changed the process.

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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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Someone prevails and others, eager to wrap up this sensitive and time-consuming process, capitulate. Why is the early narrowing of criteria so important?

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Someone prevails and others, eager to wrap up this sensitive and time-consuming process, capitulate. Why is the early narrowing of criteria so important?

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. And therein lies a bigger problem. Incremental Improvement. Sustaining Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies. Use Convergence Thinking. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind. She told me how difficult it was.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. But, all of these efforts are dependent on people for both initial implementation and long term execution. This and posts to follow will explore each of these disciplines. Importing New Knowledge.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

As an approach, lean innovation lends itself especially well to corporate cultures, often engineering ones and others strongly focused on process-improvement programs such as Six Sigma. Repeat the process until the core product is competitive or pivot to explore a new approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Earlier this year we sent a 10-employee team of Dow Corning volunteers from around the globe — our Citizen Service Corps — to Bangalore, India, to serve, discover and innovate with NGOs and other social enterprises, while searching for new thinking about how we could apply our business strategy and processes in emerging markets.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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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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