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All Remote | GitLab
Download GitLab's complete Remote Playbook How one of the world's largest all-remote companies manages teams and workflows Understand the key steps every remote worker and manager should take now Get tried and tested tactics for building remote fluency in your organization The most comprehensive remote work guide available, no strings attached and 100% free to use
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Open source in government: creating the conditions for success — Public Digital
Open source software can be a powerful lever for change, giving teams greater flexibility on how they solve problems and develop services based on users’ needs.
This report, and the Open Source Software Capability Model for Governments that it includes, aims to help decision makers build a common understanding of their governments capability, enabling them to invest in the conditions for success.
To ensure the report reflects the experience of those implementing open source software, we interviewed stakeholders across four continents, from government decision makers, technical experts, funders and people delivering digital services to citizens. A big thank you to all who took the time to speak with us, provide feedback and share their experiences so honestly and openly. Thank you also to all those who attended the open source session discussing the report at this year's Digital Services Convening (an annual event hosted by the The Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Public Digital).
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Events
Virtual Process Improvement - An Essential Tool for 2021 and Beyond Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
A process map is a planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of work. Using process mapping software, maps show a series of events that produce an end result. The process map is also a great way to visualize the path of a workflow and can be used to help employees better understand the relationship between their work and the impact it has on the overall organization. It is a powerful tool for change.
But process mapping software and approaches have been hit hard by the COVID crisis. It is very hard to do a Post It session when people are remote and using Visio for remote workshops. But there were also lots of challenges with traditional mapping techniques before COVID
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Episode 045: Katie Anderson - Learning to LEAD, Leading to LEARN | Lean Leadership Podcast
Today’s guest is Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, speaker, and author of the bestselling book . Best known for her focus on helping individuals and organizations lead with intention
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Lean
How to measure corporate innovation in a large enterprise
Practical innovation accounting. How can organisations measure innovation in a meaningful way, without stifling creativity and tripping on bureaucracy?
For the last couple of years, Dan Toma and I have been closely collaborating on cracking the above question.
In this webinar, we discussed:
why measure innovation performance at all, how are existing accounting practices lacking when it comes to measuring innovation, what is a better way to measure innovation in a large enterprise, principles of innovation accounting, measuring innovation on a strategic, managerial, and tactical level, and our favourite innovation metrics.
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Why Organizational Excellence Must Have a Standard - Shingo Institute
We live in a world that is inundated with standards. Though standards are ubiquitous to our existence, they are also necessary. Without standards, safety in automobiles would be arbitrary. Manufactured food would not be as safe as it currently is. Without standards, anyone could market pharmaceutical products on assertions of safety, quality, and efficacy. We understand, accept, and even appreciate standards. But what about the importance of having a standard for organizational excellence?
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Agile
Why an Agile Team is necessary for a process improvement project
A vital part of the agile methodology is to form a team or multiple teams working together to complete a project. In DSDM Agile, these teams of motivated individuals are split into two sections; the Project Team and the Design Solution Development Team.
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Continuous Improvement
Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
A number of health systems have scored impressive gains in improving outcomes and patient satisfaction and lower costs by applying the Toyota Production System (TPS) to redesign “lean” clinical and administrative processes, eliminating waste and boosting quality. But in all too many cases, when the leader who championed TPS left his or her organization, these efforts began slipping. We know this firsthand: This happened at Wisconsin-based ThedaCare. When one of us (John Toussaint) left in 2008, its performance in terms of quality (as measured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s metrics for Next Generation accountable care organizations) fell from best in the nation to middle of the pack.
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Ideas
Microsoft GitHub Copilot: A.I. offers coding suggestions
KEY POINTS GitHub, GitHub’s parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work. The system can make recommendations in almost any programming language, although it works best with the popular JavaScript, Python and TypeScript languages. OpenAI will release the underlying online service for other companies to use this summer.
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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist
Play has long infused the language of business: we talk of players, moves, end games, play books and so on. And now we hear often about the “gamification” of work—using elements of competition, feedback and point scoring to better engage employees and even track performance. Even so, actual games are still taboo in most organizations—the stereotype of the work-avoiding employee cracking new high scores in Minesweeper has given gaming a bad name. And the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. This is unfortunate. We think that games have an important place in cultivating good strategists, and that now more than ever games can give executives an edge over their competition.
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