QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2014

It is an actionable guide titled “Implementing Lean Six Sigma in 30 Days” that aims to help readers in understanding the Lean Six Sigma methodology and solve problems that undermine quality and inhibit efficiency. Lean Six Sigma offers a way of answering this question, combining the approaches of both Lean and Six Sigma in a way that offers an opportunity for exponential improvement in a way that is manageable, flexible and sustainable.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Thinking the Six Sigma way for customer service). Without going into detail, my wife and I had a disappointing experience with a restaurant over the weekend. Not terrible – just disappointing. I got to thinking… It’s no secret that customer service needs to improve, in a lot of arenas.

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Six Sigma Retail Blog 98

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2013

execution fear and courage productivity clarity Karen Martin Lean Six Sigma opportunities problem solving quality quality programs risk fear the Outstanding Organization trustWhen I first read Karen Martin’s book, The Outstanding Organization, her definition of a problem versus opportunity stuck with me. ”In recent years, it has become popular to avoid the word problem in organizations, recasting it instead as an opportunity for improvement.

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Six Sigma Quality Definition Positioning 197

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2014

He has been practicing Lean Thinking and Six Sigma for 15 years as a certified Master Black Belt. David Shaked is an independent consultant—a positive change leader for individuals, teams, and organizations. David is also a practitioner and teacher of several strength-based approaches to change (such as Appreciative Inquiry, Solution-Focus coaching and Positive Deviance) bringing […].

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Six Sigma Consultative Wilde Positioning 73

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Long Term Implementation of Lean Six Sigma within Organizations from Michael Cardus. Whether you use Lean Six Sigma within your organization or not, this content will prove valuable to you…. Pitfalls in Six Sigma Teams. Steps to Keep Lean Six Sigma Within the Organization. Hire Mike. Want to discuss your company and working with your quality team to create a culture of quality improvement?

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Long-term Quality Six Sigma Organization 99

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2011

Bob's blog entries "Black Belts" and Green Belts armed with explicit financial targets Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement big IT implementations Brad Power Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible Harvard Business Review blog's "Conversation" series HBR email alerts Lean Enterprise Institute Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts ("Belts") in command making improvement and adaptation a habit (even fun?)

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Article 77

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Originally this was written for a workshop called ‘Long Term Implementation of Lean Six Sigma within Organizations’ … and with some changes the content is applicable and valuable to anyone who manages, works on, and puts work teams together. The 10 Pitfalls are from ‘Six Sigma Team Dynamics’ George Eckes. Pitfalls to Avoid in Creating and Leading Teams.

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Six Sigma Team Resistance Project 112

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2014

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg McKeown Crown Business/Imprint of Crown Publishing Group “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.” ” Albert Einstein As I began to read this book for the first time, I was again reminded of the Einstein observation as well as Greg McKeown’s previous book, Multipliers: How the Best […].

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Six Sigma Review Books Wiseman 73

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Bob's blog entries "Black Belts" Brad Power Business Process Management (BPM) Chemical company Air Products four process improvement "religions" General Electric Harvard Business Review blog Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts Kaizen Lean Lean "senseis" Lean Enterprise Institute Michael Hammer Motorola Shell Oil Six Sigma the Toyota Production System Toyota Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

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Process Six Sigma BPM Kaizen 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review‘s “The Conversation&# series. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Do you have a process improvement [.].

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Process Six Sigma Article Resources 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 15, 2011

Here is an article written by Jeff Haden for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * I think LinkedIn is the most effective social media platform for professional and business [.].

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Six Sigma Audience Resources Tools 77

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #6: Modern Indentured Servitude. Today’s world is one of sharp contrasts. As a society, we have more choices, opportunities, wealth, and prosperity than at any other point in human history. Yet, we are also more depressed, dissatisfied, and despondent than ever before.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 79

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Corporate Team Building Team Building Team Building Agenda project management six sigma team building successful planning team leadershipThe team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Team projects succeed of purpose. The 1st team meeting is crucial to setting the foundation of the work.

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Project Six Sigma Team Team Building 108

Mike Cardus

MAY 20, 2013

Corporate Team Building Images Leadership Management Manager Training Organization Development Power Point Products Speaking Engagement Team Building create-learning team building and leadership leadership development lean leadership lean organization development quality leadership quality speaker quality teams six sigma team building Quality Leadership Development from Michael Cardus. I’ve delivered variations of this workshop and talk at conferences and to teams in many places.

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Quality Leadership Development Development Team 111

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2016

Design of Experiments Data experiments Health care robust Six sigmaThis webcast, from GE Life Sciences, seeks to provide an understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) using an example of protein purification. It begins with a good overview of the reason why multi-factorial experiments must be used while changing multiple factors at the same time in order to see interactions between factors. These interactions are completely missed by one-factor-at-a-time experiments.

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Six Sigma Video Software Health Care 46

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #2: Not Listening. To truly listen does not mean merely hearing or paying attention. Listening is a specific type of active interpretation that shapes our realities. This largely unknown and certainly unrecognized skill is critical in the new business world.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Tactical Execution excess inventory execution waste Greg Gaskey lean operations lean six sigma strategydriven

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Transportation 69

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Premium Tactical Execution Greg Gaskey lean operations lean six sigma overproduction strategydriven waste

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Efficiency 65

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Corporate Team Building Team Building front line team development lean leadership manfacturing six sigma team buildingLeading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. Having my start in training and development while working for Bic in Charlotte NC. That time really impacted my life.

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Team Building Six Sigma Training Team 101

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #4: Worship of Information. In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. But data and information are useless without human beings to interpret them.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Premium Tactical Execution Greg Gaskey lean operations lean six sigma overproduction strategydriven waste

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 65

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We must now focus our attention on eliminating the six ‘modern’ wastes: Degenerative Moods. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it.

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Ohno Six Sigma Productivity Products 54

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams Thursday, October 07th, 2010 Posted by: mike ASQ Buffalo NY Lean Six Sigma Conference. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference. To register Developing / Leading / Being Part of Effective 6 Sigma Teams Who should attend and why?

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Six Sigma Team Building Development Project 91

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Premium Tactical Execution eliminated non-value-added work Greg Gaskey lean six sigma operational efficiency strategydriven All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. In fact, in slower economic times or sales periods, organizational leaders often find themselves in situations that require the reduction of discretionary budgets and resources while trying to maintain throughput and organizational expertise.

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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This session is for senior operating executives and organization/leadership development support professionals such as HR, Learning/Training, Organization Development, Safety, Lean/Six Sigma, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Service. management Alvin Toffler Continuous Improvement culture change culture development customer service Health & Safety leadership Lean/Six Sigma organization change Shift Happens

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Six Sigma Workshop Video Globalization 49

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles. To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven Silent Killer #1: Degenerative Moods. A mood is a predisposition for action. As human beings, we are always living in one mood or another. This is an inescapable aspect of life. We are mood-driven creatures, and our moods are the foundations from which we assess and move in the world.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 50

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. An example of this is this spring’s blogs on Lean/Six Sigma and how Toyota’s culture is what really makes the difference in their use of these tools.

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McGregor Six Sigma Workshop Tools 43

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

However, as we then helped Clients apply this approach, we ran into two problems: 1) Shortcomings in the customer-perceived quality of the organization’s core product or service and the quality of the support processes often subverted attempts to enhance Third Ring service; 2) Our narrower focus on service was not harnessing the power of the techniques within the emerging Total Quality Management/Continuous Quality Improvement movement (now evolved to Lean/Six Sigma.).

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Quality TQM Six Sigma Definition 46

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. Six Core Components for a Peak Performance Culture. Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 44

The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

Starting in the late eighties and eventually morphing into Lean/Six Sigma, the quality movement completely revolutionized management thinking throughout much of the western world. management American Society for Quality Control ASQ culture development leadership Lean/Six Sigma quality improvement safety improvements W.

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Quality Six Sigma System Short-term 43

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

I’m very happy to announce that we have a Six Sigma Black Belt joining the WomenOnBusiness.com team of contributors. Please join me in welcoming Leona Charles of SPC Business Consulting to WomenOnBusiness.com. I know she’s going to bring unique insight with her! About Leona Charles Leona Charles began SPC Business Consulting Ltd in 2007 to

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Six Sigma Team Consultative 144

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

During our discussion, Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics : Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard and CEO of Smarter Solutions, a global management coaching and consulting firm specializing in the design and application of innovative enterprise-wide performance measures and business solutions, shares his insights regarding: the importance of an integrated approach to organizational performance improvement.

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Forrester Balanced Scorecard Six Sigma TQM 58

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. I was about to teach the customer segment of a Six Sigma class near Palmdale, CA, for Lockheed Martin. I was a part of a consulting team bringing six sigma and lean thinking to Lockheed-Martin. Few American presidents were more fun loving than Theodore Roosevelt.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Hamel 239

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 6, 2012

Whilst the improvement of process is a mature activity, with methods such as lean, six sigma and BPM decades old. Continuous improvement is one of those areas that no organisation can afford to overlook. You are not watching this post, click to start watching read more

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BPM Six Sigma Maturity Management 52

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 16, 2018

I learned this method over 20 years ago during my Six Sigma/QAT training at ADVO. Too often, people tend to solve problems by taking two divergent directions: They think of an idea — and zip off in that direction with no real assessment or planning. Measure once, cut twice. They over-analyze their problem to death without taking action. Analysis-Paralysis. The hardest part of any initiative or project is usually getting everyone on-board - mentally and physically.

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Six Sigma Metrics Audience Analysis 150

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 16, 2018

I learned this method over 20 years ago during my Six Sigma/QAT training at ADVO. Too often, people tend to solve problems by taking two divergent directions: They think of an idea — and zip off in that direction with no real assessment or planning. Measure once, cut twice. They over-analyze their problem to death without taking action. Analysis-Paralysis. The hardest part of any initiative or project is usually getting everyone on-board – mentally and physically.

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Six Sigma Metrics Audience Analysis 150

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 18, 2014

You can have all the great plans, six sigma workouts, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence, and creativity to pull it off, you’re back to muddling through. Your strategy is only as strong as the ability to execute at the frontline.

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Team Six Sigma Energy Creativity 219

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. Since then, Six Sigma has widespread use throughout our economy. Steel) won the award , drawing attention to Six Disciplines as providing a complete program for strategy execution coaching and performance excellence. Here's what they had to say about Six Disciplines. ).

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Six Sigma Strategic Planning Software Analysis 85

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Sounds a lot clearer than saying “we are going to embark on a six sigma project to improve efficiency,” doesn’t it? Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Restructuring Peer Review 206

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. ©iStockphoto.com/AnsonLu. Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting.

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Resistance Six Sigma Supply Chain Stakeholder Analysis 156

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 19, 2012

day training of Lean Six Sigma Master Belt Belts’ in Change Management, Project Management and Training Techniques. Team Building Team Training lean leadership Lean Six Simga Training measuring training metrics for team building process improvementThe above image was taken at a 2.5

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