Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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System Products Productivity Deming 74

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager. He could go on and say, “The BPI team sees many opportunities to streamline the process and we will use technology to make workflow easier and information transparent to all involved.”

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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. Consider this example.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.". For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

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.) They then asked two key questions: "What were the patterns of previous continuous improvement attempts?" By all means, choose a name and stick with it.

Six Sigma 15

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. General Electric Operations' Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Disciplined process management: While many aspects of hospital care are not repeatable, many processes are indeed subject to well-established disciplines such as Six Sigma and reengineering. occupational therapy or rehab), and many more.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes. They foul up everything they touch , adding costs to operations, angering customers, and making it more difficult to make good decisions. For bad data don't just bedevil Big Data.

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Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5 Capitalize on success.

Cost 10

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Companies like Rolls Royce can, therefore, offer outcome deals where they guarantee customer outcomes (examples: zero downtime, higher speed, more fuel efficiency, zero operator error, greater reliability) and share risks and rewards with customers. For example, breakthroughs in battery technology made the electric cars possible.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Human factors science, which studies the relationship between human beings and systems in order to improve efficiency, safety, and effectiveness, is now being applied broadly in health care in everything from information management to the design of operating rooms. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8