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How AI Fits into Lean Six Sigma

Harvard Business Review

AI already is being used in some areas of process improvement, and the usage of this technology — including generative AI — promises to grow. That’s because it can perform tasks faster and much less expensively than humans alone. But it will never fully replace people — and that poses management challenges.

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Approaching Process Optimization from a Modern Perspective

Strategy Driven

It’s a good idea for any leader to familiarize themselves with modern optimization methodologies – Lean and Six Sigma being perhaps the biggest contenders on that front. Advanced Optimization Methodologies. Various modern approaches to the problem have emerged, many of which are showing strong promise already.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting.

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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum. In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process. It’s also a very fragile process.

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Quality Team and Leadership Development

Mike Cardus

It signifies the talent of bringing people together and getting them to effectively work towards a common goal, to co-operate with each other, to rely upon each other, to trust each other. Within every part of our lives from work to family to friends to be known as a good leader is a great accolade.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation

Strategy Driven

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.