Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change.

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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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). Baby-Step UX : By now, your organization has probably dipped its toe into the app market with mixed success. Just look at the. $1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The characteristics of hardware businesses include long product development cycle, Six Sigma efficiency, and long sales cycle. One factor that will favor digital companies in the industrial internet is technological/scientific breakthroughs that level the playing field for newcomers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. ups become successful because they are frugal in their origins.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. Getting Started.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5 Capitalize on success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

On the basis of this early success, you start to build processes that can enable the new culture and approach to be integrated inside the organization. Methodologies like Six Sigma are all about reducing risk, but they are not effective for innovation because innovation by definition is risky.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

If your company is a successful organization, it has many excellent leaders. 5 Tips to Build the Success of the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner. Or, is it something where they will be honored company-wide for the success? Remember that the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner may be new to these BPM roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Over the years, Japanese managers, engineers, and workers have been very successful in reducing manufacturing costs by adopting more enlightened quality thinking and by applying more technical quality methods. – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The model for healthcare is being flipped upside down — from decades of focusing on acute care episodes and encouraging utilization to a future where successful organizations are able to reduce utilization, manage population health, and activate patients in the consumption (and delivery) of their own care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. Dr. Burns' career has spanned scientific research; issues management; science and technology leadership and business management. Today, Stephanie A.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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