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Leadership is fundamental in driving quality in an organization. A good leader's actions and words filter down to all organizational levels to create a quality culture. The concepts of organizational leadership are built on a foundation of core business elements. A clear understanding of these elements is key in developing an organization's strategic plan and vision. These core elements include: organizational structure and culture, roles and responsibilities of managers and leaders, change management, motivation and negotiation, and conflict and empowerment. This...
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Six Sigma is a data-driven improvement philosophy that views all activities within an organization as processes whose inputs can be controlled to effect significant improvements in process outputs. Six Sigma uses a rigorous and systematic methodology known as DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) and a number of qualitative and quantitative tools for driving process, product, and service improvements aimed at reducing defects and variation. Lean is also an improvement methodology, but with a different focus, aiming to enhance process flow, reduce cycle...
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Shipping and storage of raw materials can carry exorbitant costs. This impact explores how businesses can reduce such costs.
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0.1
Lesson ObjectivesLean Inbound Transportation
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The Lean approach is to eliminate waste from an organization's production and fulfillment processes and to maximize every opportunity to improve efficiencies and customer satisfaction. By applying Lean tools and techniques, organizations can become more competitive and responsive to customer demands. For example, the Visual Workplace is a Lean tool that uses of clear visuals such as signs, labels, and color-coded markings to keep workers from wasting time and effort searching for materials. Another tool â just-in-time management â ensures there is a continuous supply...
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Quality management is an important factor in the success of today's organizations. Leading organizational thinkers have gone to the extent of saying that quality in an organization is determined by the quality of its management. In order to bring quality and excellence to an organization, managers need certain skills, tools, and abilities in all their functions. These skills and abilities relate to their understanding of management principles and theories, key organizational functions, and their mutual interrelationships. This course explores basic principles of...
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"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough just to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." â Vance Havner, author. However, venturing into Six Sigma is not easy. Deploying Six Sigma is where "the tire hits the road." It requires a lot of hard work and planning. As a Six Sigma Champion, you'll need to plan for and deal with critical Six Sigma deployment issues, develop business-aligned deployment strategies, ensure continued buy-in from top management, and integrate metrics for continuous feedback and review into your plan. This course...
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Managing expatriates presents many significant and often unforeseen challenges. This Business Impact focuses on some useful preplanning and reintegration methods for approaching expatriate career development.
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0.1
Lesson ObjectivesManaging Expatriates' Career Development
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Six Sigma Black Belts have the challenging task of managing the full spectrum of personal dynamics that characterize project teams. Each team member provides the team with unique strengths and weaknesses, and combining individuals into a team produces varied results. Besides providing the basic tools and structure for smooth team operation, and maintaining the integrity of the project schedule by managing limited team time, Black Belts require the skills to minimize maladaptive team behaviors and optimize positive ones. Black Belts must therefore be aware of the...
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How do you know what consumers really want? How do you know which consumers to go after and how to get them interested in your products and services? You need to develop an effective marketing strategy. Marketing is a core business process that helps companies develop strong relationships with consumers â it is used to identify the right consumers, anticipate their wants and needs and ultimately create value for them and for your organization. Realizing the essential function that marketing plays in any company will help you better understand the relationship that...
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What role does ethics play in marketing? What is corporate responsibility and how is it linked to marketing? In order to develop strong and lasting customer relationships, organizations must ensure their marketing practices are fair, honest, and accurate about their product and service offerings. While marketing is a key business function, it also has an important societal component that cannot be overlooked. This course introduces the concept of ethics in marketing and its close connection to corporate responsibility. It also provides insight into how to ensure marketing...