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For Organizational Effectiveness, Look to HPI

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Author: Valentina Paronetto Image created by the author In the 1980s, Motorola Inc. was threatened by Japanese competition, and customers were unhappy with the low quality of products. This pressure led the company to take action to improve processes. In 1986, Bill Smith, an engineer at Motorola Inc., developed a data-driven quality-control method called Six Sigma which relies on five phases: define, measure, analyze, improve, and control. The company’s desired efficiency level was to produce less than 3.4 defective products per million units, and Six Sigma was the mechanism to achieve this performance goal. After implementing Six Sigma, Motorola improved its quality and has saved more than $16 billion in twelve years, and its success encouraged thousands of organizations worldwide to move in this direction.  Motorola was one of the first companies to drive performance improvement through a systematic approach , which led the company to produce the cultural and operative change n...
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How Human Performance Improvement (HPI) Training Benefits Your Team

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                                                                                                                                          Image source: https://pixabay.com/images/id-3694993/ Did you know statistics show that  70%  of what you learn, you will forget the first day? Is it any wonder, then, that  92%  of business leaders do not see the value in training? Have you ever wondered if perhaps training is not the answer? What if a simple environmental change could make a positive impact on performance?   Having an instructional designer on your te...
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Location: United States
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Learning and growing together

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Young trees are flexible, they bend with the wind and bow with the snow.  As they age, many become rigid, pushing back against the blows and burdens of each season. Yet some, surrounded by other trees that help diffuse the forces of nature, sustain those challenges and thrive as they press toward the sky. People, like trees, may age with tension, limiting their ability to adapt to new conditions and opportunities. But people can often retain the flexibility of youth by exercising the mind and body and drawing upon the resources of community.   This blog was created to foster learning with and for adults. Particularly, it welcomes the contributions of students and alumni engaged in instructional design and performance improvement , whether they are new entrants to the field or seasoned veterans. We all learn and grow together knowing that we humans develop throughout adulthood and that challenge and support provide a "just right" blend of tensions for supple minds regar...
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Location: Boise, ID, USA
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