On the Lean Organization
Lean is a term used in business to describe a simplified and minimalist approach to doing business. The first principle of lean, at its base level, is to build only what is needed....
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The Strategy Focused Organization and the Balanced Scorecard
All aspects of leadership and management become incorporated as organizations apply the five principles. Those who implement their strategies have exceptional, visionary leadership....
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Tools for the Imagination
The tools we need are tools that support these activities. ¹ We will look at several examples of tools from the creativity literature, but anything that helps us accomplish one or more of these six mental activities will help us to be more imaginative in...
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TPS (Toyota Production System) Training
It took Toyota over 30 years to develop what we call today TPS (Toyota Production System). Organizations cannot just copy and paste the tools they developed and call themselves lean, for may have tried and few succeed....
Read More5 Ways Change Management Models are Incomplete
By Todd VanNest and Frank Voehl Recently, a major study demonstrated that little has changed-Nearly 70% of all transformation and change initiatives continue to fail. With all that is written and posted on Organizational Change Management, or OCM (i.e., where a Google search yields over 6.3...
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Innovation Management Categories
Basic Research: This is the type of work done at universities and some R&D labs. There isn’t a clearly defined outcome. The point is to discover more about how things work. Some say that basic research isn’t innovation, because it does not necessarily result in...
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Business Cycle Management
Basic Business Management Cycle PIE: Planning, Initiation, Execution Brand Management & Strategy Management Practices Advanced Strategic Marketing Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business Communication & Tools Strategy & Innovation Leadership Financial management Human Resource Management Marketing Management Customer Relationship Management Operations and Supply Chain Management Other Business Management Areas Business Intelligence Health Care Management IT Management Management Consulting ...
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What is the ISO 9000 Process Approach?
ISO 9001 uses a process-oriented approach. ISO 9001:2008 examines about 21 processes in its scope, one of which is the entire Quality Management System. ...
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Leadership and Management Quality
A standard dictionary would define Leadership as follows: the capacity or ability to show the way by going in advance; the act of guiding a course, behavior or opinion of others by playing a principal or guiding role, especially in the creation of the excellent...
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Strategy Associates Distinctive Competence
Strategy Associates’ distinctive competence is that we target communities underserved by high speed networks and advanced digital services in a unique but proven Public / Private Partnering (P3) approach that combines the strengths of all constituent stakeholder groups and our top tier technology vendors. ...
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