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Common Questions About the DMAIC Cycle for Improvement

Kainexus

The DMAIC cycle is often called Six Sigma’s roadmap to improvement. It is one of the core tools of the methodology, but organizations also use it as a standalone improvement technique. We have clients in almost every industry, from healthcare to construction, who have achieved quantifiable impact against core business metrics by using the DMAIC approach.

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3 best ways to build psychological safety in the workplace

Idea to Value

I believe that Psychological Safety is one of the most important capabilities a team can have to achieve high innovation performance. Check out the amazing podcast episode with the originator of the concept, Prof Amy Edmondson. To describe it simply: Psychological Safety is a climate where people believe it is possible, expected and valued, that they speak up with relevant ideas, questions, concerns and even mistakes.

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Learn From Others: Three Lessons You Can Apply From Startups To Your Business

Entrepreneur - Innovation

It is essential to leave behind the "it has always been done like this" and nourish yourself with the experiences and learnings of the startup ecosystem.

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Building a Transformational Culture Through Cross-Functional Teams

Cascade Strategy

What would happen if you took away all the people from an organization? It wouldn’t cease to exist, but could it still function? Could it produce results?

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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8 Ways to Make Sure Your Leadership Style Isn't Offensive

Entrepreneur - Innovation

These approaches can help ensure you're leading towards success, strengthening your team and fostering innovation.

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11 Timeless Peak Performance Reminders for Leaders

Rmukesh Gupta

This post is inspired by another post by one of the titans of the advertising industry – Kevin Roberts. You can read the original post here. Here are my peak performance reminders for leaders: Start your day with intent. Be humble. Remember that as a leader you are here to serve the cause and the people you lead. Your number one responsibility is to create more leaders worth following.

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How to Use Brain Rewiring to Overcome Blockages

Tullio Siragusa

How to Use Brain Rewiring to Overcome Blockages. Experts have yet to discover the limits of the brain’s abilities. Some believe we may never fully grasp them all. But the data does support the existence of one of its most significant processes: brain-rewiring. It can help your brain relearn, by repairing old pathways or creating new ones. On the recent Rant and Grow podcast, I had a seasoned climber and experienced business mentor who is also a certified brain rewiring coach- none other than Che

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Once Again, Apple Gives Us a Sense of What is to Come

Brunner

Background to Apple’s latest change . Apple’s iPhone makes up 46.9% of all smartphone users. 1 So when Apple launches its latest phone operating system (IOS) , it has a significant impact. One aspect that makes Apple’s IOS 14.5 special is that it will inform users about device ID tracking and ask them if they want to allow it. . Apple’s announcement In June of 2020 helps us understand this change.

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discovering that your customers always lie to your face

helloFUTURE

One of my favorite writers is Dan Ariely, who wrote Predictably Irrational and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty. The major theme of both of these books is that humans, in general, cannot really be trusted to be honest about anything really. He provides evidence in both of these books that humans are typically dishonest about… The post discovering that your customers always lie to your face appeared first on hellofuture.

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25 Simple Ways to Free Up Your Innate Creativity

Idea Champions

Most people agree that creativity is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative. Makes sense, right? The question, however, is a tricky one, not unlike asking "How can I have a good marriage?" or "How can I become a better human being?" There are hundreds of answers and often different strokes for different folks.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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What If We Become Radically Amazed?

Mills-Scofield

Mid-April, Pemaquid, Me ~ budding begins. I’ve been wondering what habits, patterns, mindsets will remain post-COVID and which will just go away. There is one habit I’m trying to keep and I invite you to make it part of your ‘new norm’ too. It’s the habit of Radical Amazement. What the heck is that, you ask. Well, I shall answer! Rabbi Abraham Joshua Hesche l (one of my all time sages) winsomely said, ““ Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement.get up in the morning and look at the w

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