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• Ratios: Abuses and Misuses! Special note: We are responding to reader requests concerning the development of a solid foundation for understanding, in very practical terms, statistical analysis.  Many people suffer from acute statistical trauma. We are introducing a continuing series of articles that, we hope, provides readers with the basics required for proper usage of statistical tools and methods.&....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: ratios | methodologies statistical analysis and tools | statistical analysis 06/20/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Preface To Performance Measurement: Understanding Ratios Special note: We are responding to reader requests concerning the development of a solid foundation for understanding, in very practical terms, statistical analysis.  Many people suffer from acute statistical trauma. We are introducing a continuing series of articles that, we hope, provides readers with the basics required for prope....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: six sigma | ratios | methodologies statistical analysis and tools 06/20/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Averaging Ratios And The Perils Of Aggregation Special note: We are responding to reader requests concerning the development of a solid foundation for understanding, in very practical terms, statistical analysis.  Many people suffer from acute statistical trauma. We are introducing a continuing series of articles that, we hope, provides readers with the basics required for proper usage of statistical tools and methods.&....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: ratios | methodologies statistical analysis and tools | statistics 07/16/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Want to Enhance Your Project Performance Metrics? Guide to EVM and Control Charts Want to know how your process improvement project is progressing? Here’s how to use Earned Value Management and Control Charts to monitor how well you’re doing. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress. It integrates scope, cost and schedule measures to assess the performance of a project. Based on the three measures a ....Read more

  Contributor:  Abhishek Soni Tags: EVM | Control Charts | Abhishek soni 08/01/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Best Practice Report: 8 Key Areas for Measuring Quality Effectively Foundational and Emerging Practices in Quality Measurement Are you really as good as you think you are? An enterprise-wide quality measurement program can help you assess just how effective your key processes are. Here are 8 key areas you need to focus on to get it right, according to an APQC best practice benchmarking study. Although organizations have been devising ways to measure quality for ....Read more

  Contributor:  Travis Colton Tags: Quality | APQC | Travis Colton 08/02/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	Interview with John Kamensky, Member of the Government Performance Coalition Government performance management has come into the limelight with Barack Obama's appointment of Nancy Killefer as Chief Performance Officer. In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with John Kamensky, Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: John Kamensky | government performance management | government performance 01/19/2009  12:00:00 AM EST

• A Painless Look at Using Statistical Techniques to Find the Root Cause of a Problem Special note: We are responding to reader requests concerning the development of a solid foundation for understanding, in very practical terms, statistical analysis.  Many people suffer from acute statistical trauma. We are introducing a continuing series of articles that, we hope, provides readers with the basics required for proper usage of statistical tools and methods.&....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: quality improvement efforts | Lean Six Sigma | homogeneity 04/26/2011  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Align Business Process Management Measures with Organizational Goals and Strategies Business process management is currently a hot topic. Depending on whom you talk to, business process management can include business performance management, business intelligence and executive dashboards, the creation of a business process architecture, process redesign and improvement, Six Sigma and Lean Management, as well as a host of business process management software systems. Surveys typical....Read more

  Contributor:  Paul Harmon Tags: customer satisfaction | executive dashboards | business process management 03/18/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Developing and Measuring Training the Six Sigma Way: A Business Approach to Training and Development
  

  By Kaliym Islam and Ed TrolleyPublished by PfeifferIs ISD dead? Is Kirkpatrick's model ready for the attic?In his book, Developing and Measuring Training the Six Sigma Way: A Business Approach to Training and Development, Kaliym Islam challenges training professionals to use Six Sigma tools to drive training initiatives.From his point of view, traditional instruction systems design and Kirkpatrick's model o....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: Kirkpatrick's model | DMADDI | six sigma
  02/04/2009  5:22:00 PM EST

• 	Connecting Measurement and Management with Leadership and Strategy
  Tags: RGRTA | performance measurement systems | A Balanced Scorecard

• Lean Six Sigma Service Excellence A Guide to Green Belt Certification and Bottom Line Improvement
  

  By Gerald M. Taylor, Six Sigma Black Belt Published September 2008 by J. Ross Publishing Over the past couple of decades, growth in the number of new service and not-for-profit organizations has out-paced manufacturing in the global economy. Six Sigma and Lean, two of the most successful initiatives for improving quality and productivity rooted in the manufacturing sector, are now needed by org....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: Lean Six Sigma | Six Sigma | Green Belt certification
  04/01/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	Peter Evans Discusses Strategy for Implementing Lean Throughout Virgin Media
  Tags: Lean | Lean implementation | implementing Lean

• Introduction to Performance Measurement and Control Systems Performance measurement and control systems. It's a hot topic these days—in the business press, in books, in the world of management. Whether you are managing a call center or internal HR operation...or spearheading a Six Sigma project...or are the president of the United States attempting to cure our health care system, you must master the interrelated concepts of a performance measuremen....Read more

  Contributor:  From the editorial staff at e-BIM Tags: Drucker | control systems | Performance measurement 08/13/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• The Right Tool Matters! Keep things as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein (paraphrased) When I was a kid, my big sister drove a red 1967 VW Bug. In its day, this was an innovative car. It had 54 horsepower, a two-speed windshield wiper and zero computers. The heat was inadequate and it broke down a lot, but it got 100 miles per gallon—of oil. The Bug was simple, and VW rightly marketed ....Read more

  Contributor:  Andy Sleeper Tags: control chart | David Wheeler | statistical process control 09/29/2009  4:04:00 PM EDT

• Eight Step Road Map for Successful Six Sigma Implementation Before I get into the road map for successful implementation of Six Sigma, let me start with a question here. Is your organization ready to implement Six Sigma?If you weighed your pros and cons and believe that Six Sigma will help you in organizational excellence, then you are ready.Here are eight steps for successful Six Sigma implementation.Step One: Burning Platform and Shared VisionIn order to implement....Read more

  Contributor:  Lokesh R Tags: Six Sigma | deployment management | Six Sigma implementation 01/05/2010  11:19:00 AM EST

• Driving Focus and Alignment with the Balanced Scorecard Over 150 years ago William Thompson said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.” A subject that has been with us as long as time has been recorded (perhaps the first measurement?), the idea of tracking r....Read more

  Contributor:  Paul Niven Tags: Balanced Scorecard | performance measurement | strategy 03/08/2010  8:13:00 PM EST

• Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard Leadership challenges are more complicated then ever and successful businesses focus on more than just financial results. An introduction to the Balanced Scorecard approach.   The balanced scorecard system is like the "nerve centre" of an organization In the 1990s the term Balanced Scorecard was introduced by Robert S Kaplan and David P Norton as a way....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: Balanced Scorecard | leadership | financial objectives 05/25/2011  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Variation, So Meaningful Yet So Misunderstood - Deming's SoPK Part III When businesses use the wrong data or don't recognize the different types of variation, the resulting decisions and actions tend to increase costs, reduce quality, reduce productivity, and foster frustration throughout the organization, says contributor Lynda M. Finn in the third of a 4-part series on Deming's system of management, SoPK. Here are the 6 common mis....Read more

  Contributor:   Tags: Lynda M. Finn | The Deming Files | Statistics 09/06/2011  12:00:00 AM EDT

• PEX SURVEY: Are you measuring the right things? LONDON - 29 MAY 2012:  What gets measured, gets managed - or so goes a common saying. Metrics are an important part of process improvement because they let you know how you're doing and what you could be doing better. But how do you know if you are measuring the right things?  PEX Network and Forrester Research are teaming up to find out which metrics are commonly driving decision m....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: Forrester Research | Metrics | measurement 05/29/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

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