Pivotal Resources in the News...
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- 'India offers huge potential to take Six Sigma Advantage' - The Economic Times- March 20, 2008
India's economy is growing rapidly and the shift from a controlled to an open, globally competitive environment is offering both great opportunities and huge challenges," Pete Pande, president of US-based global consulting firm Pivotal Resources Inc, said here. -
- Pivotal launches India operations - The Financial Express - March 7, 2008
Pivotal Resources has launched its India operations. Pivotal Resources India will begin with an office in New Delhi and later expand to Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. -
- "The Six Sigma Way" listed as a reference book for Process Improvement - Harvard Business Review – January 2008
Mastering the Management System written by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. For more info about this article and to order it – click here. -
- Managers Drowning in Change - Management-Issues – February 7, 2008
Just like those annoying colleagues who tag every email as high priority, managers are drowning in a mass of conflicting "top of the in-tray" change projects, with the result that they never get to change anything -
- Mergers And Acquisitions: How To Avoid A 'Merger Gone Wrong' - Forbes.com - January 7, 2008
While each merger is unique, there are common, practical approaches to the integration effort that can boost your odds of success and reduce the trauma of the process on your people and customers. -
- Six Sigma for Leaders - Quality Magazine - January 2, 2008
The nature of the debate surrounding Six Sigma presents an opportunity to better understand how value can be offered to improve the caliber of leadership in an organization. -
- Leadership By Hypothesis - Forbes.com - October 12, 2007
Recognizing the reality of hypothesis-based leadership can empower you to test ideas, use facts and data more effectively and learn quickly which options are most promising and which to abandon. That can provide a significant edge in a rapidly changing, competitive environment. -
- Change ROI: A measure of business core competency - August/September 2007 Issue
Having seen the often unsuccessful attempts of many companies to execute change – and some rare examples of strong and sustained change capability – I believe the concept of "Change ROI" can and should become a consistent and valuable tool for understanding the prospects for a company's success over the near- and especially the long-term. -
- Six Sigma and Innovation podcast - Six Sigma Blog - August 29, 2007
Six Sigma leader and consultant Peter Pande responds to the ongoing debate on Six Sigma vs. Innovation. Pande explores how innovation and efforts to improve business processes can compliment one another. -
- Building Leadership Teamwork - Forbes.com - August 15, 2007
Organizations can try to influence leaders to work as a team, but only leaders themselves can make it work. Why should you want to be a team-oriented leader, and how can you take steps to make it happen? -
Podcast: Six Sigma for Pharmaceutical Innovation - An Interview with Pete Pande - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - July 16, 2007
In this podcast interview, the Six Sigma consultant and best selling author discusses typical mistakes that pharmaceutical companies make when approaching Six Sigma, and why a broader approach is necessary -
- Six Sigma Leadership - CEO Magazine - July 4, 2007
Six Sigma leadership is both hard to define and simple to understand. Pete Pande explains how it is challenging to master, but easy to apply to what you do as a leader every day. -
Scrutinizing Six Sigma: The story on 3M's evaluation of the program triggered a vigorous debate among readers - Business Week - July 2, 2007
"I've spoken with executives at 3M who felt the lessons of Six Sigma inspired them to challenge assumptions, share ideas among formerly insular global divisions, and push past previously accepted limits of how they could serve customers. To them, it was not simply a cost-cutting exercise". -
- The Manufacturer - June 28, 2007 Book Review: The Six Sigma Leader
"Leadership" is not the same thing as "management". Managers are not necessarily leaders, and leaders are not necessarily managers -
- More than answers, managers must find best path - East Bay Business Times - June 22, 2007
Having worked with leaders at many companies through 20 years in the consulting field, I've come to believe there are, especially if we focus on capabilities of leadership that influence the future of a business - decisions, actions and innovation - as opposed to traits like charisma or a forceful personality. -
- Pete Pande Responds to Business Week's "Six Sigma: So Yesterday" and "At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency and Creativity" - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - June 19, 2007
The notion that Innovation and Six Sigma cannot co-exist is both alarming and risky. Certainly, it's critical for a company to balance these efforts.Done right, Six Sigma can support innovation, and even provide a spark for developing new and practical ways to improve health benefits provided by the pharmaceutical industry -
Change and Competence by SteveMcGookin - Forbes.com - June 06, 2007
Given the adaptability required by the modern corporate environment, a basic indicator of a leader or manager's talent was how well they were able to embrace change--and further, to make change itself a "core competency"--both in recognizing the need for change and in acting effectively to bring it about. Change, Pete Pande says, "is the essence of leadership." -
The Six Sigma Leader podcast: Interview with Wayne Turmel from the Working Week - Management Issue - April 23, 2007
"One of the huge challenges we have in building strong leadership in organizations is Integrity". -
Pete Pande on Six Sigma Success: Don't Get Mired in the Details, by Agnes Shanley, Editor in Chief - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - May 2007
"Some drug company managers may be trying to fit square pegs into round holes instead of looking at the broader issues that can make Six Sigma work in any area, from discovery and R&D to supply chain management." -
- Pete Pande: Know When to Listen to Your Customers...and When Not To - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - April 2007
Balancing customer needs and business interests is critical, and "voice of the customer" exercises can be artificial. An iterative approach is necessary... -
- Six Sigma Leadership - www.LeadershipNow.com (Leading Blog) - January 19, 2007
"The high failure rate of many promising leaders is largely due to an over-reliance on a limited set of capabilities."