A Six Sigma Storyboard provides a quick, visual summary of a team’s work. They are very well suited as presentation materials to highlight the work of the project, the improvements made and for executive overviews. I think Six Sigma Storyboard presenters should take it up a notch. A DMAIC presentation can have a little Jazz Read More …
This is a transcription of a podcast, Best Practice for Self Coaching – Leadership 901 that I had with Howard Guttman principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm. When discussing Howard’s new book, Coach Yourself to Win: 7 Steps to Breakthrough Performance on the Job and In Your Read More …
New ideas come from networks and forming new networks create new ideas! People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. Great Read More …
Fact: Within any industry – be it hospitals, public accounting firms, manufacturing, governmental organizations or law firms — 20% of the organizations will be dramatically improving much more effectively than 80% of their competitors. What does the top 20% do differently than the rest in their respective industries? In The Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Read More …
John Sviokla on The Havard Business Review wrote How would Walt Disney Market in 2009! Great article which points out the core principles that we can all learn from: Know the story is king. Utilize the newest technology to tell that ancient story in a new way. Coordinate the message across the media. Have the Read More …
Your storyboard should not be a a dry report but an active document that truly makes your project come alive! Storyboarding has become a popular way of transferring the details of a Six Sigma project to a graphical representation. Very much like your child’s fifth grade science fair project. The purpose of course it gives Read More …