Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. I’m not a strict operator. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

Interviews 156

Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Rick Conlow

JUNE 3, 2021

When I use the word ‘team’, I refer to either a department or work group. If you have a large team break them into smaller groups for discussion purpose. Problems- – task and process related. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily. Strengths and weaknesses.

Turnaround 52

Turnaround Training Training eBook 52

Rick Conlow

JUNE 3, 2021

When I use the word ‘team’, I refer to either a department or work group. If you have a large team break them into smaller groups for discussion purpose. Problems- – task and process related. Certainly, all team needs group dynamics training or they will stumble unneccesarily. Strengths and weaknesses.

Turnaround 52

Turnaround Training Training eBook 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” ” But RPA can be combined with changes in the relevant business process. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement.

Company 42

Company Process Improvement Case Interview Efficiency 42

Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I was recently talking to a group of students in a master’s program in OD. The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. On one hand, I like projects that enable me to work with employees to figure out how to improve their business.

Organizational Development 73

Organizational Development Nonprofit Ethics Consulting 73

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores.

How To 40

How To Retail Productivity Sales 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Our experience at the Nemours Children’s Health System suggests that value-based care (VBC) is necessary to significantly improve health outcomes and to lower costs for children with chronic illness and complex medical conditions. Our pilot effort was supported in part by a federal grant.

Transportation 28

Transportation Methodologies Process Improvement System 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Improve Productivity: What can we do to complete tasks more quickly? While process improvements can drive some productivity increases, the biggest productivity improvements are often a result of automating groups of tasks. When automation is coupled with process changes, the resulting impact can be substantial.

Productivity 50

Productivity Tools Efficiency Meeting 50

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents. One experiment generated a 2.6%

Development 28

Development Leadership Operations Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This data can then feed into a predictive model, helping us know with precision the actions that are going to accelerate adoption of a new practice, process, or behavior by a given employee group. What approaches work with groups that share these characteristics? What risks are associated with programs that share these features?

Change Management 28

Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Other companies including Lowe’s, Walmart, McKesson and JetBlue Airways have recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Health Design Plus (HDP) to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) which helps employers identify quality providers and negotiate bundled payments.

Healthcare 28

Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. The robo-adviser recommender became an opportunity to facilitate cross-functional collaboration between product groups and IT managers who literally had never communicated before.

Engineering 28

Engineering Company Data Enterprise 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. With the confirmation of Robert Lighthizer as United States trade representative, the long-delayed start of the formal process to begin renegotiation of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico can move forward. Congress of its intent to begin the process.

Intellectual Property 31

Intellectual Property Industry Marketing Policies 31