Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

We consulted with Stuart Hart , the best-selling author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World and an advocate of immersion in unfamiliar circumstances, and with CDC Development Solutions in order to gain insight into how we could make the projects a success. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D.,

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. I'm not saying that's bad, particularly (I've spent a large part of my career leading sales organizations), but if you've worked with sales professionals, you'll recognize the pattern of their typical strengths. They coach and develop talent.

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Six Sigma Leadership Metrics Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet." This seems like common sense; so why is it so hard? Three words: fear of failure. In my opinion, Beth Comstock and Col.

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Creativity Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. The HR system for developing a pipeline of talent should be carefully constructed to put individuals in roles like these to broaden their leadership competencies.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. But inside most companies, working on something that “fails” commercially carries significant stigma, if not outright career risk.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The fallout was dramatic: the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned and the FBI initiated a criminal investigation.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8