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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. We are no longer living in that world.

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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

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas. They’ve been through the paradigm shift.

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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. 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

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

BPD is important for endless reasons including; Proper Alignment of Operations with Business Strategy: To change or modify the business strategy usually requires improving multiple operations being performed by different people involved in a business. Augments Operational Effectiveness: ? Importance of Business Process Design.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Whether it is a new IT system, new equipment, or a new product, most projects involve changing the way people do their jobs. Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. Process Improvement.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

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.

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Six Sigma Organization White Paper Efficiency 62

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

Starting Up a New Product or Service. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. Adopting a Process Framework.

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Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Related posts: How to Select the Right Project Team Members Eliminating Negative to Increase Positive Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Before the Promotion He Was Nice & Had Potential.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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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.

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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 18

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

APRIL 22, 2015

This was the original purpose of forming corporations — to facilitate the production of products and services with the least amount of wasted time, materials, and labor. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production.

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Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

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). And "What can we do now to ensure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past?"

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

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 "!) But moving to continuous delivery is a struggle.

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Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I describe it as two Amazons: one that operates for 10 months and the other that operates for two months out of the year.” Consumer goods Operations Retail' . “Volume grows over the previous year. The already aggressive and fast-moving environment in the headquarters and fulfillment centers become manic.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Retail Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

An alternative approach to cost cutting is built into the "Six Sigma" methodology as popularized by GE. The quoted financial savings from Six Sigma projects, while valid, aren't having long-term effects on their cost structure. But the cost-cutting scalpel is simplistic and can wound sound operations and valuable people.

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Cost Six Sigma Short-term Banking 9

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This article is the first of a series I am preparing in collaboration with Dick Steele , a Board Member of The Deming Institute, to offer our thoughts on the legendary Toyota Production System and its connection to the management system within Toyota and how it was inspired by Dr. Deming. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The product had modules that could be removed and replaced quickly by system administrators if something went wrong. But according to Rothfeder, many companies, such as Toyota and other Six Sigma practitioners, place undue weight on the last reality, gen-jitsu , because their focus is on data-driven process efficiency.

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Six Sigma Sample Innovation Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. While this may be more difficult for them to learn, it greatly reduces the pain of surgery and recovery, allowing the patient to walk immediately after the operation. ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful.

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Health Care Six Sigma Metrics Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency. Lean Six Sigma , which even made its way into a candidate pledge in the last presidential campaign , is one in a series of such business-to-government waves.

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Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Operations Organizational culture' With the rise of the industrial revolution, that changed.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

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

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. And the attention science pays to data quality provides important lessons, especially for those interested in "Big Data.".

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-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. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

As I noted in a previous post "Keep Your Operations in Shape by Focusing on Management Processes," performance measurement (which is usually managed by finance) is one of four critical management processes for improvement program success.

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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

Reduce time to market for this product). This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager. It may be easier to use common terms, like, “What are your goals for this BPI project?” and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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