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• New Employee Training on Continuous Process Improvement—Strategies and Methods to Touch Every New Employee Every organization that has implemented a process improvement methodology or methodologies is faced with the dilemma of how to train new employees in such a way that they fully understand the organization and its approach to Continuous Process Improvement (CPI). You are seeking to provide an overview of your Continuous Process Improvement program and how it ties to your strategic business plan. Once....Read more

  Contributor:  Dennis Narlock Tags: process improvement program | process improvement | Continuous Process Improvement training 08/03/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Is Your Continuous Improvement Organization a Profit Center? Continuous improvement organizations must be profit centers, not cost centers. Too often, these organizations are established with little thought as to how they will function with the rest of the organization. As a result, the continuous improvement organization goes about aimlessly “improving,” with no bottom line results from its effort. No results equal no buy-in. No buy-in equals resistan....Read more

  Contributor:  Mark Woeppel Tags: Mark Woeppel | continuous process improvement | process improvement 06/15/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Street Smart Lessons from a Caveman Have you ever wondered what the oldest tool is in your Six Sigma process improvement toolbox? Some argue that Dr. John Snow’s map, which helped end the cholera epidemic of London in the mid-1800s, was one of the first uses of a concentration diagram. Karl Pearson gave us the standard deviation around 1893. Walter Shewhart drew the first control chart in 1924. In 1977, as John Travolta was strutting ab....Read more

  Contributor:  Jeff Cole Tags: Karl Pearson | Walter Shewhart | John Tukey 01/05/2009  5:53:00 PM EST

• 	Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout Your End-to-End Value Stream For years, Lean Six Sigma was mostly associated with the manufacturing level of production. But as organizations become more familiar and comfortable with Lean Six Sigma, many are now applying it to non-manufacturing processes. Christopher Cool, Vice President of Sector Quality Systems and Safety for
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Christopher Cool | end-to-end value stream | Northrop Grumman 12/10/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• 	Maximizing Your Return on Your Continuous Improvement Activity
  Tags: process excellence | Illinois Lincoln Award | operational activity

• 	The Power of Continuous Improvement Culture Deployment With many companies focusing largely on large process improvement initiatives mandated and handled from the top, one has to wonder how many organizations actually go the extra mile of engaging individual employees in process excellence. As Chip Handley, Vice President, Lean Six Sigma Deployment Champion at
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Ring Power | Genna Weiss | continuous improvement culture 12/17/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• The Legend of Motorola: Embracing the Next Generation of Process Improvement In the 1980s, Motorola made waves in the business world with the development of its process improvement strategy Six Sigma. Today Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma are widely-upheld methodologies and tools used to reduce variation in a business process by using a statistical process control to measure variance and standard deviation. Tina Huesing, Director of Six Sigma at Motorola, speaks with the Process Exc....Read more

  Contributor:  Tina Huesing Tags: Six Sigma | Lean Six Sigma | Six Sigma Process Improvement 11/17/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• Lean Services: Asia's Preeminent Deployment Leader Gives Global Insights on Lean Six Sigma for Services While Lean has been an effective process improvement method for the manufacturing industry, some service companies have only begun the journey of implementing this methodology to assist with achieving operational excellence. Debashis Sarkar, who currently leads the Organizational Excellence Group at ICICI Bank from its headquarters in Mumbai, India, knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of this proces....Read more

  Contributor:  Debashis Sarkar Tags: eight wastes | Debashis Sarkar | Lean for Service Organizations and Offices: A Holistic Approach for Achieving Operational Excellence 01/12/2009  5:25:00 PM EST

• 	Enhancing the Lean Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma Statistics Training Experience Using Baseball Analytics
  Tags: Six Sigma | Design for Six Sigma | process improvement

• Overcome Lean Six Sigma Resistance with “What’s In It for Me?” Let's face it ... any change in any organization will meet with a certain amount of resistance and skepticism. We are creatures of habit and habits are inherently difficult to change...especially at work. However, when you are the agent of that change and what you are driving is process improvement, there are unique challenges involved. This is especially true if you were never taught the people....Read more

  Contributor:  Peg Drummond Tags: Lean Six Sigma | Six Sigma | people skills 11/09/2009  12:00:00 AM EST

• Why random acts of improvement might be hazardous to your health Save us from good intentions  Improvement activities can be implemented without explicitly thinking about process. They can happen anywhere for any reason. But not all so-called “improvements” are good for your organizational health, says Jeff Varney from APQC. Here’s why. When discussing process management and improvement, I often talk ab....Read more

  Contributor:  Jeff Varney Tags: Jeff Varney | APQC | process improvement 11/20/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

• Are Your Six Sigma Leaders Really Trained to Lead? I am astounded by what organizations expect from their “trained” Six Sigma project leaders. After just a few days of process improvement project leadership training, and possibly the implementation of a Six Sigma project or two, these “certified” individuals are expected to take the organization’s Six Sigma process forward–to lead it in a manner that results in sustained ....Read more

  Contributor:  Kevin McManus Tags: Six Sigma | cost reduction | team leadership 01/12/2009  5:31:00 PM EST

• An Introduction to Six Sigma Management Non-Technical Definitions of Six Sigma Management Editor's note: if you're new to the field of Six Sigma, you might want to consider joining PEX Masters 2012 - an online presentation series that brings you indepth case studies and key skills to help you better manage Six Sigma and process excellence programs/projects. The online event takes place 5-15 November 2012. Six Sigma management u....Read more

  Contributor:  Howard Gitlow Tags: DPMO | increase customer satisfaction | Six Sigma management 11/17/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• Fast Tracking Improvements Through Six Sigma Standardization and QualityHow many times have we flown in an airplane knowing who the pilot and co-pilot are? Even without knowing, we are fairly confident that the crew are well trained and will get us to our destination. The reason for our well-placed trust is that all pilots are well trained and can be interchangeable without having any impact on the outcome. Could we say the same about surgeons? It is ....Read more

  Contributor:  Anantha Kollengode Tags: quality control | Anantha Kollengode | Mayo Clinic 12/15/2008  5:30:00 PM EST

• Four ways to improve how you improve We know what it takes to make continuous improvement a success – so why do so many deployments fail? The critical success factors for the deployment and sustainment of continuous improvement initiatives are well established “truths” for process excellence professionals. We know we need strong executive sponsorship, frequent and open communication about the change, a structured appr....Read more

  Contributor:  Khwaja Moinuddin Tags: process improvement | continuous improvement | Khwaja Moinuddin 10/04/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Process Improvement Tip #10: Appeal to the competitiveness of your business executives In the lead up to PEX Masters next month, we’re running a series of process improvement tips to help you jump start your initiatives for 2013. This is the tenth of twelve. Having strong executive sponsorship is one of the keys to successful process improvement. If the guys and gals in the top layers of your company aren’t convinced that what you’re doing i....Read more

  Contributor:   Tags: Process improvement | Process improvement tips | continuous improvement 10/29/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	A Panel Discussion with Three 2009 IQPC Process Excellence Awards Judges In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with three 2009 IQPC Process Excellence Awards judges—Diane Francisco, Global Director for Process Excellence for Covance; JD Rapp, Vice President of Business Process Management for Whirlpool Corporation; and John Douglas, Vice
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Six Sigma | Covance | Whirlpool Corporation 01/14/2009  12:00:00 AM EST

• Sales, Six Sigma and Statistics: How One Team Used Statistical Analysis to Solve a Sales Challenge and Make Money It is harder and harder to meet profit and sales projections in this struggling economy. Especially hard if your business is influenced by heavy competition for your products and/or services. We are seeing consumers shift their day-to-day buying decisions, making conscious “trade down” decisions to stretch their dollars. So what can you do to improve your sales performance and manage your growth....Read more

  Contributor:  Rosa Oppenheim Tags: Six Sigma | Chi square test | improvement process Six Sigma 05/18/2009  5:56:00 PM EDT

• Superhero Process Improvement? The Five Essential Qualities of Leadership Whether newly trained in a continuous improvement methodology or a seasoned professional the success of your team depends on how you approach your leadership role, writes contributor Dennis Narlock. It’s important to remember that continuous improvement is something that you do WITH people, not something that you do TO them. Here are the five qualities you need.  Process improvement h....Read more

  Contributor:  Dennis Narlock Tags: leading teams | process improvement | Dennis Narlock 11/21/2011  12:00:00 AM EST

• Business Process Management (BPM) Resources on PEXNetwork.com Welcome to PEX Network.com’s Business Process Management (BPM) resource center. Here you get the low down on what it takes to make BPM successful as well as access free process-related resources like webinars, podcasts, case studies and more. Whether you’re just getting start with Business Process Management  (BPPM) or looking to kick your program up a notch these resources are desig....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: Business Process Management (BPM) | Business Process Management (BPM) Webinars | Business Process Management (BPM) experts 09/04/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

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