The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Local/department/team sub-optimization.

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Process System Management Root Cause Analysis 52

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 6, 2020

When we started our coaching and consulting work with his leadership team, it soon became clear they were frantically implementing a partial and piecemeal effort. Poorly aligned agile teams were launched to implement critical new programs. But these teams confused activity with results, and motion with direction.

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Agility Organization Root Cause Analysis Letter 124

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Wholistic approaches focus on interconnections and cause-and-effect relationships.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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Root Cause Analysis Mission Statement Travel Restructuring 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Fortunately managers, aided by a senior data scientist engaged for a few hours a week, can introduce five powerful “tools” that will help their existing teams start to use analytics more powerfully to solve important business problems. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. This is the essence of data science.

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Root Cause Analysis Team Analysis Learning-by-Doing 14

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

when the going got tough, why weren’t we looking more closely at the basics first – the foundations of team effectiveness ? I used to believe the secret sauce of strong project teams –and their effectiveness– was chemistry. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured.

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Project Deming Root Cause Analysis RACI 28

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. Root cause analysis. 7) Work in teams.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28