Author name: Forrest Breyfogle

Overcoming Malcolm Gladwell’s Talent Myth

Malcolm Gladwell’s Talent Myth was described in his book, What the Dog Saw: and other adventures. This blog makes reference to the book’s chapter titled ″The Talent Myth: are smart people overrated?″ In this chapter, Gladwell does an excellent job presenting observations about Enron´s culture that apparently contributed to the company’s downfall around the turn […]

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Why Your Manager Wants Lean Six Sigma Belts Working for Them – The Reason

Find out how your leadership can take full advantage of Lean Six Sigma Belts, and also how anyone can sell their attendance in a Lean Six Sigma Belt class to management! Lean Six Sigma is a money-saving, profit-gaining methodology that can be leveraged in any business industry. Long-term Lean Six Sigma instructor, Rick Haynes, will engage attendees through this 1-hour presentation. Note: Audio stops at 46 minutes 15 seconds but continues quickly in 1 minute 15 seconds.

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How to use Leading and Lagging Indicators for Predictive Statements

How to use leading and lagging indicators to provide futuristic insight should be an organizational desire.  However, if one were to read the results from a Google search on the topic, the conclusion that would probably be made is that a measurement is either a leading indicator or a lagging indicator and much cannot be

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Building Quality Management System

For a building quality management system objective, one can benefit if they could utilize an Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system structure.  IEE provides a fact-based management system for processes that is aligned to the financials. Details of implementing the IEE system are described in a five-book series. The book, Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume II, Business

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Creation of a Predictive Analytics Scorecard: Description and Webinar

Forrest takes traditional performance metrics and transforms them in to predictive measures that suggest business actions or non-actions. Look at the transformation of the following: – Table of numbers business performance metrics reporting – Red-yellow-green scorecard business performance metrics – Time series business performance measurement dashboard See how the change to a futuristic view can transform your organization!

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Business Improvement Failures Answering Right Question

Business improvement failures answering right question is addressed below as a story, which could also have been titled: Executive Frustrations and Opportunities. Business Improvement Failures Answering Right Question or Executive Frustrations and Opportunities It was late into the evening hours as Bill frustratingly examined this month’s performance report, which appeared in his e-mail inbox earlier

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