Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon. Kaizen is not a one-off experience, consistently aim to improve efficiency.

Kaizen 76

Kaizen How To Outsourcing Efficiency 76

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon. Kaizen is not a one-off experience, consistently aim to improve efficiency.

Kaizen 57

Kaizen How To Outsourcing Efficiency 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) the United States.

Six Sigma 21

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

It strives to eliminate anomaly, standardize processes, solve short-term problems, and achieve stopwatch efficiency within its current mode of operating. A market opportunity for tablet computers, for example, is more of a distraction than an opportunity to the hierarchy of a giant PC manufacturer focusing on this quarter's earnings targets.

Organization 17

Organization Kaizen Budgeting Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?" Call it "customer kaizen.". The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?" Call it "customer kaizen.". The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15