Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2019

However, one of the most consistently successful is through the use of a Kaizen Burst. There are potential benefits for businesses of all sizes, and entrepreneurs would be wise to start looking at their own Kaizen Burst Event before their competitors do. Technology Trends. Technology Trends.

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Trends Entrepreneur Kaizen Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. The Japanese word ‘kaizen’ translates as improvement, and is the name given to a strategy that works on the principle that all employees work together to improve process incrementally.

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Kaizen How To Outsourcing Efficiency 57

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.” Learning fast and slow.

Competitive Advantage 57

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Learning-by-Doing Technology 57

Tim Milburn

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Japanese call this “kaizen&# or continuous improvement. . · Making minor changes instead of major ones. The classic line of “not wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater&# is part of the revise perspective. It sees improvement as a direction or trajectory, getting rid of waste or unproductive practices along the way.

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Kaizen Download Sports Learning-by-Doing 68

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. When I teach at health systems, I always ask who has heard of Dr. Deming. Many hands go up.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

Technology 9

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Though charmingly valuable, Kaizen and suggestion boxes are 20th-century productivity anachronisms. An earlier post suggested that new technologies were fabulous media for augmenting and enhancing individual job performance. Technology was as much an enforcement tool as a process platform. Still true.

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Kaizen Bottom-up Efficiency Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Call it "customer kaizen.". Today's Web 2.0 Their continuous innovation is contingent upon their customers' continuous improvement.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Call it "customer kaizen.". Today's Web 2.0 Their continuous innovation is contingent upon their customers' continuous improvement.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

It''s that faith in a kind of kaizen -in-all-things that has led to innumerable technological, organizational, and social advances in the corporate world. Smart, modern workplaces, like Adaptive Path , have had to ban technology in meetings so that everyone acts as a full participant. It keeps us focused.

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Kaizen Fashion Participative Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. Who has these inspirational ideas and translates them into productivity-driving innovations?

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement. For example, Gerald Wright, a vice president in technology services at Hewlett Packard, has shown himself to be a master at top-down, bottom-up and lateral mobilization. Implementing the change. Change leaders work across boundaries.

Middle Management 16

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. The manufacturer has since introduced quality techniques (" kaizen " events), as well as Lean strategy deployment methods and tools. Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Intelligent technologies are increasingly delivering greater value for less money. How should smart machines be programmed — or trained — to offer up new insights or kaizen? Smart, quasi-autonomous robots and machines are replacing humans in workplaces all over the world. Are there new networks — Internets of Things?

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Review Kaplan Performance Review Kaizen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

These technologies and innovations make creating cultures of accountability more practical and transparent. Organizations that care about Kaizen , or the process of continuous improvement, and facilitating effective feedback will make “accs” a way to make sure that their people have the power to (self) improve.

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Self-aware Kaizen Construction Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But more strategic responses identify the essential ensembles of people, processes, and technologies that provide the most valuable — and valued — user experience (UX) for customers and clients. Which user experiences consistently generate the best returns? Delightful user experiences are delightful.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

As an MBA, I had become fascinated with Kaizen and other process-improvement techniques. Sir Dave : To give you a bit of background, when we first started out, the top of the Olympic podium seemed like a very long way away. Aiming for gold was too daunting. People want to win.

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Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. It is more “box ticking” than human capital investment.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8