Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Energy 86

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. Maybe free markets, maybe capitalism, maybe the opportunity to earn a living through business, maybe that is part of the solution. For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor?

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. Its leadership said, "We want to 'democratize the skies' and give rank-and-file Americans the freedom to fly."

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Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Earlier this year we sent a 10-employee team of Dow Corning volunteers from around the globe — our Citizen Service Corps — to Bangalore, India, to serve, discover and innovate with NGOs and other social enterprises, while searching for new thinking about how we could apply our business strategy and processes in emerging markets.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. It also provides the executive leadership with a steady stream of "demos" to show off at CES.

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF). Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". But why not?

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2012

Fixing involves corporate improvement programs like Activity Based Costing, Six Sigma and others.”These Marketing is inept (BELIEF).”. The Primes will show you where you can grow as a leader. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Six Sigma Activity Based Costing Follow-up System 284

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

As an approach, lean innovation lends itself especially well to corporate cultures, often engineering ones and others strongly focused on process-improvement programs such as Six Sigma. The resulting new products are often too expensive, too complicated, too different from what customers want, and too late to market.

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Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. But, all of these efforts are dependent on people for both initial implementation and long term execution. This and posts to follow will explore each of these disciplines. Importing New Knowledge.

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Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Company Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 10

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. They like to run lots of experiments with new product or feature ideas and let the market decide which ones deserve further investment. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies. Use Convergence Thinking. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 9

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. I was about to teach the customer segment of a Six Sigma class near Palmdale, CA, for Lockheed Martin. The benefits were significant. Fun Leaders Are Light. Fun leaders are about light.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft?

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind. She told me how difficult it was.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. High Performance Team Development & Leadership Workshop with Executive MBA’s. Archimedes Principle of Marketing Management.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

As I fine tune next week’s Leadership and Culture Development for Higher Health and Safety webcast presentation, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from the quality movement and the widespread failure to apply those to workplace safety. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing.

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Quality Six Sigma Deming System 49

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 78

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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. They need to be protected – made autonomous, with their own dedicated budgets, resources, and leadership – until they are.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 15