Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. About the Author.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

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.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author.

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

"Twenty-five years ago, management meant control. Managers put in controls, handed workers specifications, and established formal structures that ensured that people did what they were told. Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships.

Execution 101

Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation. Properly assisting executives and managers of the organization in sustaining reliability in all the business processes. Augments Operational Effectiveness: ? Importance of Business Process Design.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. As an alternate solution, why not take a ‘production’ approach to the issue and look at your organization from a value-adding standpoint. By focusing on the Non-Value Adding portions of your organization.

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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. Starting Up a New Product or Service. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. Implementing a Change Management Approach. Change Management'

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Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Six Sigma Organization White Paper Efficiency 62

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. michael cardus is create-learning image by by Emergency Photography.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar. Let me explain.

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Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes. An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. the United States.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

What do users across the world really want, how can we uncover and design for their unmet needs, and what services can we attach to products to stay close to our customers? For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Which do you respond to first?

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

and uncovers new customer insights; it then turns to operations to translate the insights into action.and hits a wall. The people in operations are too focused on fulfilling internal requests and service agreements to worry about customers, the ones that pay real money. Analytics "!)

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Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

For example, at Bank of America, 44 senior bank managers and about two dozen consultants worked on a cost-cutting initiative called "Project New BAC". They solicited cost saving ideas from employees, then prioritized and presented them to senior managers. They analyzed costs, set targets, and met with business and functional units.

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Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

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 ). Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 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. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. In our opinion, culture is contextual, and what would have been appropriate in the 19 th century, when the company was a one-product, one-country organization, is very inappropriate in today’s far more globalized environment. (GE

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

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. Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

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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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Simply put, bad data make everything about Big Data — from discovering something truly novel, to building a product or service around that discovery, to monetizing the discovery — more difficult. An HBR Management Puzzle. The two most important problems are: The data are poorly defined, leading to incorrect interpretations.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

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 management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. What kind of return can shareholders expect, and when? What can we learn from this failure?

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. Reduce time to market for this product). and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers. Its Jacobs Vehicle Systems unit used lean manufacturing techniques to eliminate waste, reduce floor space, and improve product flow.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

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. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

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. He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. It was going to take a collective effort that included our management team and all of our staff," he said.

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Six Sigma How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 16

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. In fact, we lose up to 40 percent of our productivity by switching between tasks; the more we switch, the worse our performance.

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