Kimberly Watson-Hemphill – författare
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“How can I create an innovation engine that will consistently deliver substantial organic growth?”
This question is the number-one issue for most CEOs and senior executives today. Innovation is a critical driver of organic growth, yet based on the authors'' research, only a small percent of companies effectively use innovation to sustain long-term, profitable growth. And the stakes couldn''t be higher-failure to create successful new products, services, and business models causes stagnating or declining profits.
Now, for the first time, experts Michael George, James Works and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill explain the surprising and significant gap between the CEO''s growth goals and actual performance. The authors, who are experts at connecting strategy to execution, give you a complete blueprint for exploiting the strategic and operational dimensions of innovation.
Using fresh insights about the true drivers of fast time-to-market and the inadequate success rate of innovation, Fast Innovation reveals:
Why current approaches to innovation failA new strategic and tactical plan that will help your company dramatically reduce time-to-market by 50 to 80 percentThe secret for finding out what your customers really want (not just what they say they want)Tools and methods for turning customer insights into ideas that will generate significant ROIThe key levers that senior leadership must engage to create innovation capability across the businessYou''ll receive specific actionable solutions for driving disruptive and sustaining innovation at the strategic, portfolio and project level. You''ll also learn how to improve how much time your innovation teams actually spend innovating, and discover the changes that must be launched at the corporate level in order to enable the whole business to embrace and get results from this approach.
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The New and Definitive User’s Guide to Lean Six Sigma
If you’re a business leader, you already know that Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular and powerful business tools in the world today. You also probably know that implementing the process can be more than a little challenging. This step-by-step guide shows you how to customize and apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your own organizational needs, giving you more options, strategies, and solutions than you’ll find in any other book on the subject. With these simple, proven techniques, you can:
* Assess your current business model and shape your future goals* Plan and prepare a Lean Six Sigma program that’s right for your company* Engage your leadership and your team throughout the entire process* Align your LSS efforts with the culture and values of your business* Develop deeper insights into your customer experience* Master the art of project selection and pipeline management* Tackle bigger problems and find better solutions* Become more efficient, more productive, and more profitable
This innovative approach to the Lean Six Sigma process allows you to mold and shape your strategy as you go, making small adjustments along the way that can have a big impact. In this book, you’ll discover the most effective methods for deploying LSS at every level, from the leaders at the top to the managers in the middle to the very foundation of your company culture. You’ll hear from leading business experts who have guided companies through the LSS process—and get the inside story on how they turned those companies around. You’ll also learn how to use the latest, greatest management tools like Enterprise Kaizen, Customer Journey Maps, and Hoshin Planning. Everything you need to implement Lean Six Sigma—smoothly and successfully—is right here at your fingertips. Also included is a special chapter focusing exclusively on how to implement Lean Six Sigma in healthcare.
When it comes to running a business, there is no better way to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and escalate profits than Lean Six Sigma. And there is no better book on how to make it work than Innovating Lean Six Sigma.
524 kr
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The New and Definitive User’s Guide to Lean Six Sigma
If you’re a business manager, you already know that Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular and powerful business tools in the world today. You also probably know that implementing the process can be more than a little challenging. This step-by-step guide shows you how to customize and apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your own organizational needs, giving you more options, strategies, and solutions than you’ll find in any other book on the subject. With these simple, proven techniques, you can:
* Assess your current business model and shape your future goals* Plan and prepare a Lean Six Sigma program that’s right for your company* Engage your leadership and your team throughout the entire process* Align your LSS efforts with the culture and values of your business* Develop deeper insights into your customer experience* Master the art of project selection and pipeline management* Tackle bigger problems and find better solutions* Become more efficient, more productive, and more profitable
This innovative approach to the Lean Six Sigma process allows you to mold and shape your strategy as you go, making small adjustments along the way that can have a big impact. In this book, you’ll discover the most effective methods for deploying LSS at every level, from the leaders at the top to the managers in the middle to the very foundation of your company culture. You’ll hear from leading business experts who have guided companies through the LSS process—and get the inside story on how they turned those companies around. You’ll also learn how to use the latest, greatest management tools like Enterprise Kaizen, Customer Journey Maps, and Hoshin Planning. Everything you need to implement Lean Six Sigma—smoothly and successfully—is right here at your fingertips.
When it comes to running a business, there is no better way to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and escalate profits than Lean Six Sigma. And there is no better book on how to make it work than Innovating Lean Six Sigma.