Most organizations do not invest the time to understand and optimize the inputs influencing their outputs. Without this investment, costly, and many times fatal, decisions are made.

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President
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Output
Improvement

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The Problem
Most organizations do not invest
the time to understand and
optimize the inputs influencing
their outputs.
Without this investment, costly,
and many times fatal, decisions
are made.
Why? What must change?

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Input
Convert
People
Machine
Methods
Information
Materials
Process Output
Improvement
Side
Emotion
Side

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Input
Convert
People
Machine
Methods
Information
Materials
Process Output
• Gratitude
• Pride
• Confidence
• Despair
• Anxiety
• Anger
But when output is
unfavorable, leadership
emotions change, invoking
the wrong decisions

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So How Do We
ensure the correct output response?
Favorable
Unfavorable

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Focus on

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Input
Convert
People
Machine
Methods
Information
Materials
Process Output
Significant inputs are identified
and then optimized
Outputs provide the
needed feedback
response so that variation
reduction can start

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Improvement Strategy
Continuous improvement

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Improvement Method
Six
Sigma

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