Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement? How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7 ! 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7 ! 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time. Overwhelm and the resignation and panic it generates are great wastes and very effective killers of productivity and profitability. Eliminate these modern wastes – silent killers of productivity and profitability – and transform your organization!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Many organizations confuse the occasional ‘lightning strike’ of a new idea or product innovation with having a culture that fosters innovation. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.” Ironically, this only kills productivity in the long run.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 ! Shift Your Understanding. . Book value is not guaranteed.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

You can have all the great plans, Six Sigma quality programs, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence and creativity to pull it off, you’re finished. They master the art of productive meetings, delegation, and problem solving.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Degenerative or unproductive moods are tremendous, yet invisible, killers of productivity and profitability. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Relate Articles: 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability. Their infrastructure, morale, manufacturing capacity, and international relations were all destroyed.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In that sense, this approach will help you improve quality while decreasing the cost of production — but where do you begin? If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Implement Lean Six Sigma (DMEDI).

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 16, 2013

Long before we heard the phrase “Quality is Job #1,” various movements initiated the concept of systematically improving product quality. Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Long before we heard the phrase “Quality is Job #1,” various movements initiated the concept of systematically improving product quality. Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 78

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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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.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. At home, we purchased our first Toyota product, a pick-up truck, after growing disappointment with 2 U.S. Twenty-nine years later, our family continues to own and drive Toyota products.

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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. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices. They have sustained tremendous improvement in productivity, effectiveness, and attentiveness to opportunities.

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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. Premium Tactical Execution Greg Gaskey lean operations lean six sigma overproduction strategydriven waste' Tactical Execution Best Practice 5 – No Co-, Only Vice.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

As an alternate solution, why not take a ‘production’ approach to the issue and look at your organization from a value-adding standpoint. Premium Tactical Execution eliminated non-value-added work Greg Gaskey lean six sigma operational efficiency strategydriven' The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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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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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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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

The Three Rings of Perceived Value uses concentric rings to show that as ever-higher levels of customer-defined support and service are added to a high quality product or service, the customer’s perception of value increases. In high service/quality organizations, all three rings are strong and growing. Perceived value is high.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 6, 2012

One thing that we feel is the benefit of lean and Six Sigma is actually the return on investment in these programs,” he said. You might even want to throw in an extra 10% saving for the productivity gains from not having people stuck in meetings. Where’s the cash?”. Step 3 - Turn these figures into a bottom-line ROI.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Provides proper support to business compliance initiatives, including ISO 9000 and Six Sigma. Process analysis is useful for optimal utilization of existing resources that can help in enhancing the overall productivity of the organization. Fastest solutions to any business concerns in the most elegant way. ?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. They’re innocently ignorant.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

Starting in the late eighties and eventually morphing into Lean/Six Sigma, the quality movement completely revolutionized management thinking throughout much of the western world. That’s led to exponential increases in quality and productivity – especially in manufacturing, logistics, and other process industries.

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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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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, the well known and researched 85/15 Rule (not to be confused with the 80/20 Pareto Principle) from decades of Quality/Lean/Six Sigma work has shown that 85 – 95 percent of errors, rework, and service breakdowns are caused by the system, process, or structure. People are often the symptom carriers.

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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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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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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. We may achieve near perfection on a temporary product or process but resting on our laurels or becoming arrogant and resistant is a recipe for disaster. So what if we made small, incremental improvement. Tip #9: Ask “Now What?”

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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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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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