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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.

Management 133

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

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.

Transportation 58

Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

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.

Tactics 58

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

Tactics 64

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 64

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.

Process 66

Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

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

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. 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.

Tactics 50

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.

Six Sigma 37

Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. A Detailed Review of current strategy and operational plans. Each of the logically ordered steps is clearly explained.” ” ~ D.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. Implementing a Change Management Approach. Change Management' Do you see yours on the list? Shifting Culture.

Six Sigma 60

Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

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.

Productivity 64

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

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.

Six Sigma 62

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. Concerns about a relationship ?

Project 109

Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This session is for senior operating executives and organization/leadership development support professionals such as HR, Learning/Training, Organization Development, Safety, Lean/Six Sigma, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Service. Click on Leading a Peak Performance Culture for more information and to register.

Six Sigma 61

Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If this was done it would be possible to use trainees and lower grade operatives more extensively. Lean Leadership: Boosting or Blocking Lean/Six Sigma Tools and Techniques. Much effort was absorbed in the playing of demi-semi-quavers; this seems an unnecessary refinement. Scores should be drastically pruned.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

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.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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.

Team 108

Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

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.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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. What promises are we making to our key stakeholders?

Covey 69

Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

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.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

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. In what ways can Managers, employees, and trainers work to improve the results? For example too academic or classroom training for front line employees. What do you think?

Team Building 122

Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

Six Sigma 18

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others. Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.".

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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).

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

Process 12

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

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. General Electric Operations'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

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.

Cost 9

Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

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.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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. IT management Marketing Operations' Analytics "!)

Marketing 8

Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 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. Business strategies focused on process and efficiency won't help the country manage that. Big data is rolling in after it.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. Operational excellence had made us vulnerable to disrupters that were figuring out new ways to move mainstream.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

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. Let me explain.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Since the data originate from many sources, you must assign managers to cross-functional processes and to important external suppliers, and ensure that data creators understand what is expected. You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8