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Two Keys for Today’s Leaders

Lead Change Blog

What if you had the keys to ensure your conversations would fuel productivity and engagement? Leaders, anxious to do something about it, began a root cause analysis and did surveys to clarify the extent of the problem and solicit solutions. Impossible, right? Everything leaders do is mediated through conversation.

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How Team Leaders Can Improve Problem Solving Skills With a Clear Process

Great Results Team Building

This tool encourages systematic thinking and promotes a shared understanding of the problem’s root causes. Five Whys : The 5 Whys technique is a simple yet powerful tool for root cause analysis. It involves repeatedly asking “why” to dig deeper into the underlying reasons behind a problem.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

“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. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality.

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Optimize the Whole

QAspire

When a customer reports problem with your software, you do an incidental root cause analysis and address the code quality problem. But when you look at the whole system, you might figure out that the real root cause is in something which is immeasurable yet important – may be, collaboration with other teams or how you sell.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. Root cause analysis. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear. 7) Work in teams.

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

Following are tips organizations can follow to drive a horizontal focus on analytics and achieve their desired business outcomes, such as customer retention, product availability, or risk mitigation. Develop a robust root cause analysis capability. to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch).

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

Following are tips organizations can follow to drive a horizontal focus on analytics and achieve their desired business outcomes, such as customer retention, product availability, or risk mitigation. Develop a robust root cause analysis capability. to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch).