Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

Way too often executives will use organizational restructuring (often including mergers and acquisitions), implementing new systems — especially technology, tightening policies and procedures, or introduce programs like Lean/Six Sigma, safety, or cost cutting to drive organizational change.

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Leadership Process System Six Sigma 59

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Management Human Resources Six Sigma Kaizen 133

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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How To Middle Management Innovation Learning-by-Doing 68

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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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Process Six Sigma Company Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning. But improvement has improved.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Health Care 15

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s, when a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos, and James Womack , surveyed production systems at 90 automobile assembly plants in 17 countries.

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Deming System Productivity Products 74

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.) They then asked two key questions: "What were the patterns of previous continuous improvement attempts?" something tied to customers and service.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Skills Six Sigma Team Learning-by-Doing 15

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. Change leaders have a North Star — and they talk about it. Implementing the change.

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Middle Management Management Six Sigma Taylorism 17

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager. He could go on and say, “The BPI team sees many opportunities to streamline the process and we will use technology to make workflow easier and information transparent to all involved.”

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And once they get there, they find that there is no letup, especially today when investor expectations are higher than ever, globalization has made the position a round-the-clock job, and technology hardwires everyone to work. Otherwise, the results are likely to be both personally destructive and ultimately bad for the company.

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Career Six Sigma Deming Advice 18

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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Innovation Management Six Sigma Supply Chain 15

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.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

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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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Learning-by-Doing 15

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, sold by Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever was not designed in Mexico or in Europe however.

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Company Marketing Six Sigma Innovation 15

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). Six Sigma UX : Successful UX is often about doing less, not more. The value of UX as a corporate asset is no longer in question. Just look at the. $1

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Strategy Six Sigma Bottom-up Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0." Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Time and cost constraints limited these options.

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Skills Six Sigma Education Supply Chain 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Disciplined process management: While many aspects of hospital care are not repeatable, many processes are indeed subject to well-established disciplines such as Six Sigma and reengineering. occupational therapy or rehab), and many more. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

In the face of such discrepancies, companies usually seek technological solutions, including data integration , enterprise data architecture , and master data management, since the issue presents itself as a tech problem. But such solutions face long odds, because they do not address the problem at its root. Create a common language.

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Six Sigma Long-term Definition Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You can find some of the most significant hard skills here: Technological savviness. Six Sigma techniques. This list can apply to all kinds of professions and you can include some of the skills for your profession too. . There are also hard skills to put on resume, and we present them below. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis.

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Skills Six Sigma Teamwork Charisma 111

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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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

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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Six Sigma Health Care Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 8

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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Industry Six Sigma Customer Intimacy Software 9

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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Examples Process Strategy Six Sigma 8

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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Welch Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

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. Since the data originate from many sources, you must assign managers to cross-functional processes and to important external suppliers, and ensure that data creators understand what is expected.

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How To Six Sigma Quality Long-term 15

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. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Our Six Sigma program is decent enough, and our first choice is to leverage that effort for data. Information & technology Strategy' We need to work aggressively on quality. We saved big time in the areas where we focused. People don’t use data they don’t trust. So we can’t be data-driven without it.

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Six Sigma Long-term Short-term Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

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. I thought they were crazy. Now I know they''re not." Its smart phones make up a mere 2% of the global market. No Fighting, Kids Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat?

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Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Software Six Sigma Resistance Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

sigma), our advanced pressure ulcer rate to 1/60 th the national average, and our overall never-event frequency to 5.24 Six sigma — or no more than 3.4 Technology has been very useful in compensating for human limitations and has been critical in approaching our goal of 0 never events.

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing 8

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

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Methodologies like Six Sigma are all about reducing risk, but they are not effective for innovation because innovation by definition is risky. This is especially true if you do design in innovation: There is risk not just in a process but in the market, in the brand and product you’re going to launch.

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Organization Brand Innovation Six Sigma 8