Back when I was a software systems analyst for the phone company, my boss asked me to get requirements from one of our users. He thought it would take months to get the report he wanted. I did it in one day by using the right tool for the job. Here’s how:
HBR’s article on Agile At Scale predicts the future of business and Lean Six Sigma. Here’s what I learned:
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The cover of the May-June 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review highlights “Agile” as the future of business. This is the way business is going to stay competitive in the future. Speed is the killer app!
Lean Six Sigma can no longer cling to its old-fashioned way of doing things: weeks of training, months for improvement teams. Here’s why:
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Do you know people who only dabble in Lean Six Sigma? They get in, get certified and get out?
You can use the tools of quality everywhere in your life and work for the rest of your life.
Why stop?
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Are we in the quality community letting our past dictate our future? Is our bias stopping us from seeing the possibilities?
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In Win Bigly, Scott Adams describes confirmation bias as the human tendency to irrationally believe new information that supports your existing world view even when it doesn’t. Leaders, managers and team members all think they know the solution to a given problem, even when they don’t. Here’s how confirmation bias can screw up your improvement project.
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The editor of Harvard Business Review says that “corporate survival today requires the capacity for rapid change.” Isn’t it time to embrace an Agile approach to Lean Six Sigma to “speed its evolution and better serve customers’ needs?”
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A typical company suffers from 33% waste and rework.
Eliminate the waste and rework with Lean Six Sigma and it will be great for the Earth.
The March-April 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review says that “corporate survival today requires the capacity for rapid change.” Even HR is embracing IT’s Agile methodology to “speed its evolution and better serve customers’ needs.”
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Quality has to accelerate its evolution to keep pace with business and technology.
I’m afraid our old, slow way of implementing Lean Six Sigma is going the way of the dinosaur.
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