Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other. Then people misunderstand the data and make mistakes.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. What we find is that job design, hiring profiles, and business processes play a significant part in optimizing a work system," Coco said.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

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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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The result was disastrous, as the company suffered numerous missteps in rolling out new channel strategies and overhauling back-end systems. Reluctant to oppose a leader who had dramatically increased shareholder value, the board folded under pressure and ratified the CEO’s pick.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians. These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. These were all good things and to be expected after investing many millions of dollars on people, systems, and consultants. The system must be reviewed and validated by finance.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

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 keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And the financial system nearly collapsed. 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. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? Eventually, of course, the bad data asserted themselves. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Such products have three components: physical components, “smart” components (sensors, controls, microprocessors, software, and enhanced user interface), and connectivity (one machine connected to another machine; one machine connected to many machines; and many machines connected to each other in a system).

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 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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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

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. Everything, everyone, and every system evolves over time. Use Convergence Thinking. What two or more areas are merging? Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

In a blog post, Uber says, "We never use marketing tactics that prevent a driver from making their living — and that includes never intentionally canceling rides." Lilith Reynolds, the poverty worker, adds: "People are intimidated and the system works to emphasize that. Its smart phones make up a mere 2% of the global market.

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Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The result was disastrous, as the company suffered numerous missteps in rolling out new channel strategies and overhauling back-end systems. Reluctant to oppose a leader who had dramatically increased shareholder value, the board folded under pressure and ratified the CEO’s pick.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2019

Most businesses collect data without any clear idea of why they are collecting it, and their marketing strategy gets stifled under the sheer amount of available information. The most important output is actually the insights that only shrewd analysis can show, and this is the single most important function of the modern marketer.

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Planning Six Sigma Metrics CRM 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

You don’t need a CDO to ensure your IT systems talk to one another. To gain some real end-to-end experience — perhaps making a concerted effort to try out advanced analytics in the hiring process, improve content in financial reporting, bring more data to decisions made by the senior team, and improve the quality of data used in marketing.

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Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.” ” Hiring for Growth.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. Even when there is improvement, performance usually returns to previous levels within a few years. But, all of these efforts are dependent on people for both initial implementation and long term execution.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 14

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. The resulting new products are often too expensive, too complicated, too different from what customers want, and too late to market.

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Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. Because innovation is a system-level problem, a point solution – trying to drive widespread change by doing a single thing – is wholly ineffective.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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. If its product development pro­cess places too much emphasis on removing risk from new launches, few new-to-the-world products will make it to market.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. How can we apply what we've always been great at to markets or customer segments we've never worked with?

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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Others may read this enthusiastically, thinking, “Yes, it isn’t me, it’s the system,” and yet you wouldn’t let them off the hook that easily, correct? Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Not at all. billion and can take more than a decade.

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