Dieter Reuther

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Bio

During Dieter Reuther's time as Information Technology Director at the design and innovation firm Ziba Design, he led a Six Sigma project to find out why some of their projects were extremely successful and why others ran over schedule and/or budget. The Six Sigma team compared dozens of projects and scrutinized every project aspect to either confirm or disregard initial hunches: was it the project size, the client size, the location of the client, or maybe the size of the project? None of this proved to have a significant impact. Instead it was the pairing of project leader with the project team and the individual team members. Some worked well and others just disrupted the flow of projects and led to failure. This insight that the human aspect of projects can have such an immense influence drove him to explore the power of Lego Serious Play to help teams be more successful.