The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. History teaches that tectonic change can be an agent of organizational destruction or renewal. It all depends on how we respond. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Having my start in training and development while working for Bic in Charlotte NC. Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. That time really impacted my life.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

We were operating based on sound principles enunciated by a best in class guru. The day before we went live we had the team leader rehearse the SOPs (standard operating procedures). Now, I am classically six sigma certified and innovation trained. His associate seemed to nod and give us all the right assurances.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business. It all can be done by keeping a proper eye on the entire operations and strategy of the organization. ? Augments Operational Effectiveness: ?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Will Duke is Afterburner’s Director of Learning and Development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers. In 1999, CEO Chad Holliday talked with Larry Bossidy and Jack Welch at GE, and decided to launch a Six Sigma program. Others opt in because they see the results.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

We developed a small lexicon of terms that represent a wide spectrum of innovation activities outside of the core R&D and patent area. For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others.

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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

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). And "What can we do now to ensure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past?"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Compare this number to the slowest growth categories — Postal Service Mail Carriers and switchboard operators — where the majority of positions (up to 82 percent) are classified as low-skilled, and you can sense a real problem. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. They narrowed the list to three: defining a visionary strategy to survive consolidation, driving a culture of accountability so the company could deliver on promises to investors, and developing a strong bench of executive talent. Greater focus brings better results.

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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. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

The company in our story got so excited by its process blueprints that it forgot to develop a clear financial case. One way to engage the finance function, as practiced by GE and other disciples of Six Sigma, is to build a system tracking the financial benefits of each improvement project.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. Not only do these actions set expectations for a home recovery, but they also give the patient the chance to become acquainted with — and develop trust in — the care team. ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

and uncovers new customer insights; it then turns to operations to translate the insights into action.and hits a wall. The people in operations are too focused on fulfilling internal requests and service agreements to worry about customers, the ones that pay real money. Analytics "!) But moving to continuous delivery is a struggle.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. And by training them, you can demonstrate your commitment to their development. Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management. Operations Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. They narrowed the list to three: defining a visionary strategy to survive consolidation, driving a culture of accountability so the company could deliver on promises to investors, and developing a strong bench of executive talent. Greater focus brings better results.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? Mastery of hard science is a pre-requisite to develop software-based solutions on the hardware. The answer is “yes.” ” But it won’t be easy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Human factors science, which studies the relationship between human beings and systems in order to improve efficiency, safety, and effectiveness, is now being applied broadly in health care in everything from information management to the design of operating rooms. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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