Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. Authenticity creates trust; trust is a must-have ingredient in the risk-taking recipe required for innovation.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Developing these items will open-up the discussions and innovation to move your team and you forward. Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Some of the items below may seem like common sense, good. Are you following the steps? Does the team know the method and process being used for the meeting. Referenced.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams Thursday, October 07th, 2010 Posted by: mike ASQ Buffalo NY Lean Six Sigma Conference. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

Capitalizing upon the innovation and motivation of the people who work along with you to complete the work. Overview: An interactive examination of what Quality leadership is and how you can leverage existing knowledge, competencies, Quality Practices, tools and initiatives to improve your organization, team and self.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and his Principles of Scientific Management early in the 20th century to more modern practices like Six Sigma, executives continually honed their operations to achieve maximum productivity at minimal cost. For decades, managers have been focused on efficiency.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2018

In front of me sit 40 six sigma “black belts,” appraising me warily, all squinty-eyed and knit-browed. I don’t have a six sigma belt of any color. I fully admit that I wouldn’t know the difference between a six and any other number sigma.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. Since then, Six Sigma has widespread use throughout our economy. Steel) won the award , drawing attention to Six Disciplines as providing a complete program for strategy execution coaching and performance excellence.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. Perhaps it’s an over-reliance on highly data-driven methodologies like Six Sigma or lean. But first, we need to understand the dynamics of change.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the first phase, they highlight how companies were focused on process improvement via approaches such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. Stage 1 – process improvement.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ? Concerns about a relationship ? michael cardus is create-learning image by by Emergency Photography.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

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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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Innovation . Six Sigma techniques. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

michael cardus is create-learning Referenced From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams. To discuss how this could be facilitated with your team and the value added contact Mike Now.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics : Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume II – Business Deployment : A Leaders’ Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. About the Author.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. “But they are not set up to take risks, to be innovative, and try new things out,” Altman adds. Dynamic, innovative, changing, and constantly learning: This is the new reality. It may be a tough message.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Innovation . Six Sigma techniques. Stress management . Critical thinking . Productivity. Organization . Emotional intelligence. Problem-solving . Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Proposal writing . Motivation . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste. Lock in and Engage Top Talent. Set the Stage for Engagement.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. One is a series of articles and the other is past blogs on the topic.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven' Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success. The strategy is to engage in incremental innovation to make the brand ever more attractive or reliable, the offering less costly, or the marketing program more effective or efficient.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

And he discusses six sigma (which certainly has issues) but as I have written before if you want to learn what value six sigma offers listen to what Roger (and others such as Ron Snee, Gerry Hahn…) say. Hunter: an Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? We've found that these questions point to a new need for innovative cultures in the world today (distinct from innovative companies ). Note that even without data from China, Asia is bubbling with interest in innovation.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 16

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. Absolutely not!

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. So what if we have achieved six sigma (near perfect) performance on our floppy disks or fax machines. So what if we made small, incremental improvement.

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Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation may be an organization's life blood, but still its success rate in most companies hovers at just 17%. Even innovation leader P&G succeeds less than 50% of the time. What prevents companies from innovating better? So in the end, it's a mixed message: "We want you to innovate, but only after you've done your real job.".

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Companies that have products want to improve them year-on-year. This year’s must be better than last year’s. For selfish reasons, we like to improve cost, speed and quality. Cost reduction drops profit directly to the bottom line.

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Cost Quality Products Productivity 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes. An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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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. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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