Rich Gee Group

MARCH 16, 2018

I learned this method over 20 years ago during my Six Sigma/QAT training at ADVO. Here’s a simple way of presenting your case – not only to yourself to fully analyze each permutation, but to convince all parties that you’re on the right track. So here goes: 1. Start by defining the Current State.

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Six Sigma Metrics Audience Learning-by-Doing 150

Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

With Mother’s day around the corner and a lot of us moms in lockdown (some wondering if we will even get our annual token lunch) we could all use some innovation hacks to cope with boredom, homeschooling and the compulsions of career transitions. Now, I am classically six sigma certified and innovation trained.

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Innovation Six Sigma Agility Benchmarking 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And a lack of competence around designing and managing moods will seriously limit one’s career prospects – now and in the years to come. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven' About the Author.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In the strategy session, the CEO declared that technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company. Lean Leadership: Boosting or Blocking Lean/Six Sigma Tools and Techniques. Great Places to Work Reflect Great Cultures = Great Results. Has Your Culture Created a Great Place to Work for All?

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I’d like to focus on a few areas of Dr. Deming’s career that perhaps are under appreciated, not talked about as much as some other areas. For those interested in improving the management of our organizations (hopefully that matches the readership of this blog) there is value in reading their views on six sigma.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

What I would offer, instead, are some ways to think about the problem, some guiding principles to keep in mind over the long haul of a career: Be realistic about work. At Quest Diagnostics, we turned things around, in part, by adopting Six Sigma, which aims at a standard of perfection. Expect to fall short some of the time.

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Career Six Sigma Deming Advice 22

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. The key takeaway?

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. 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

Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. Dr. Burns' career has spanned scientific research; issues management; science and technology leadership and business management. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D., is CEO and Chairman of Dow Corning Corporation.

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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.

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Six Sigma Leadership Metrics Learning-by-Doing 17

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. And modern management systems must become far more adaptive.

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Creativity Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent. Does anyone really think a 50-year-old marketer with a terrific track record is immune from the same economic and analytic forces affecting the career of a 40-year-old pro athlete who was a two-time all-star? Or doesn't that matter anymore?

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 9

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. Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Knowing the challenges they had in hiring a qualified workforce locally, P&G helped launch a broad effort to fix education, from cradle to career. P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results.

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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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