Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other. The problem arises because different systems employ different definitions of key terms. Eventually a relative newcomer discovered the problem.

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians. Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0." Time and cost constraints limited these options.

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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. Peter Löscher , Siemens chief executive, says: "A good idea or product from, for instance, India can be plugged into a global system of sales and manufacturing.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

Consider this: chief nursing officers (CNOs), who oversee large nursing workforces in midsize and major health systems, have knowledge-intensive jobs to begin with. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies. But it’s not just technology causing this learning overload.

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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. Everything, everyone, and every system evolves over time. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Such products have three components: physical components, “smart” components (sensors, controls, microprocessors, software, and enhanced user interface), and connectivity (one machine connected to another machine; one machine connected to many machines; and many machines connected to each other in a system).

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it. Similar to health systems across the country, during the financial crisis Banner experienced substantial declines in patient volume and reductions in reimbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. 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. ” Hiring for Growth. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

You don’t need a CDO to ensure your IT systems talk to one another. Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data. Information & technology Strategy' Nor do you need a CDO to help analytics take root throughout the company. We need to work aggressively on quality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And the financial system nearly collapsed. You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes. But they either didn't know or didn't care that too much of the mortgage data used to create them were wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Lilith Reynolds, the poverty worker, adds: "People are intimidated and the system works to emphasize that. All Sorts of Unfortunate Things What Happened to Motorola Chicago Magazine Motorola, the telecom giant that introduced the world to Six Sigma, has had a rough decade. It makes people apple polishers and ass kissers.". "I

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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). Many companies adopted Six Sigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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. I found a few defining characteristics: 1. Change leaders have a North Star — and they talk about it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Galvanized by the seminal publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 1999, the patient-safety movement has resulted in substantial improvements in the safety and quality of the care delivered by hospitals. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In the latest issue of Wired , Tim O'Reilly, the brilliant technology thinker and book publisher, offered his corrective on innovation, in this case with respect to entrepreneurs: "The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Others may read this enthusiastically, thinking, “Yes, it isn’t me, it’s the system,” and yet you wouldn’t let them off the hook that easily, correct? 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. Not at all.

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