Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

"Twenty-five years ago, management meant control. Managers put in controls, handed workers specifications, and established formal structures that ensured that people did what they were told. Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships.

Execution 101

Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s a good idea for any leader to familiarize themselves with modern optimization methodologies – Lean and Six Sigma being perhaps the biggest contenders on that front. Advanced Optimization Methodologies. Various modern approaches to the problem have emerged, many of which are showing strong promise already.

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Process Six Sigma Long-term Consultative 108

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As a project leader/manager one of your primary responsibilities is to increase the absorptive capacity of the project to organizational and community stakeholders. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Concerns about a relationship ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. A Detailed Review of current strategy and operational plans. Each of the logically ordered steps is clearly explained.” ” ~ D.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author.

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. About the Author.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This session is for senior operating executives and organization/leadership development support professionals such as HR, Learning/Training, Organization Development, Safety, Lean/Six Sigma, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Service. Click on Leading a Peak Performance Culture for more information and to register.

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Six Sigma Workshop Video Continuous Change 61

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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Six Sigma Organization White Paper Efficiency 62

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author.

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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

Productivity 63

Productivity Six Sigma Products Competitive Advantage 63

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Managers find something wrong (i.e. In what ways can Managers, employees, and trainers work to improve the results? For example too academic or classroom training for front line employees. What do you think?

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Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. Implementing a Change Management Approach. Change Management' Do you see yours on the list? Shifting Culture.

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Six Sigma Franchising Agility Airlines 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But it will never fully replace people — and that poses management challenges. AI already is being used in some areas of process improvement, and the usage of this technology — including generative AI — promises to grow. That’s because it can perform tasks faster and much less expensively than humans alone.

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Six Sigma Technology Process Management 28

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). Perhaps, I forgot to mention that the project was about managing bored kids tired of quarantine tedium! After all, this was a big assignment.

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Innovation Six Sigma Agility Benchmarking 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation. Properly assisting executives and managers of the organization in sustaining reliability in all the business processes. Augments Operational Effectiveness: ? Importance of Business Process Design.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 65

Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2019

Learning how to effectively use data is highly individual to each company and their operations and KPIs, but there are some building blocks for good data hygiene and usage that work across all sectors and business types. With the insights you have managed to gather, putting them into some form of actionable plan is the most important part.

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Planning Six Sigma Metrics CRM 67

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. You just finished reading Five Coaching Tips to Help Business Process Management Leaders Succeed !

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Complimentary Resource – Shifting the Focus for Profitability.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. But improvement has improved.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If this was done it would be possible to use trainees and lower grade operatives more extensively. Lean Leadership: Boosting or Blocking Lean/Six Sigma Tools and Techniques. Much effort was absorbed in the playing of demi-semi-quavers; this seems an unnecessary refinement. Scores should be drastically pruned.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

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. Leadership and Management. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. What promises are we making to our key stakeholders?

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Covey Deming Learning-by-Doing Six Sigma 69

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

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. He also serves as a consultant to process and continuous improvement management programs.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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. But the key to success is a management process for focusing on business imperatives called "policy deployment," from the Japanese term " Hoshin Kanri."

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review‘s “The Conversation&# series. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Do you have a process improvement [.].

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Process Review Article Power 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others. Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.".

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 16

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.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

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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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). 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).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

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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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 21