Author name: Forrest Breyfogle

Business Performance Management Articles

The enhanced business performance management topics described in more than 50 free articles, videos, and recorded webinars, provide direction, among other things, on how to improve organizational key performance indicators (KPIs) metrics. Included also from this Smarter Solutions’ resource center library, where the business performance management articles reside, is a description of how to integrate these enhanced business […]

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Business Revenue Enhancement in Five Management Steps

Obviously, making money is important to businesses; however, primary focus for increased profitability is often given to cutting costs. Initially benefits can be achieved with a cost-savings strategy, but, after low-hanging-fruit is harvested, the benefits from this effort can be detrimental to the long-lasting health of the business. In contrast, organizations experience lasting benefits when

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Benefiting from Lean Six Sigma and Business Process Management (BPM) Together

Many organizations have deployed both business process management(BPM) and lean six sigma. There is some natural overlap, as well as some fundamental differences between the two, but organizations can benefit from a structured integration of these two techniques in their business…Take a look at this 3 page magazine article to understand the purpose of each system and see an orchestrated method to integrate the two.

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BPMN Tutorial: Business Process Modeling And Notation Webinar

In this one hour webinar, Rick covers the basics of BPMN – Business Process Modeling and Notation. Learn the differences between this new tool and Value Chain Mapping or Process Mapping. See the common shapes in this diagramming method and understand how to use and interpret each. In this very interactive webinar, you will come away with the basics to practically utilize this tool.

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Enhanced Key Performance Indicators Reporting System

A key performance indicators reporting system is to provide performance measurements that describe important business aspects.  What will be described is an enhanced approach for accomplishing this objective. The Integrated Enterprise Excellence Business Management system provides the structured framework for achieving this desire.

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Porter Value Chain

The Porter value chain is enhanced when predictive performance measures are included.  A business process management (BPM) system implementation, which uses an enhancement to Porter’s methodology, gains much when it incorporates a structured inclusion of predictive metrics that have a natural balance in its use of a value chain.  Porter Value Chain Benefits Michael Porter’s

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Webinar: Lean Six Sigma Training Providers Selection, the Most Important Factors

This one hour webinar gives tips on what to research when looking for a quality Lean Six Sigma training course. Considering a Black Belt course or a Green Belt course? Not all classes are created equally. Rick shares the most important factors and recommendations to research in order to achieve the goal you ultimately desire.

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How to Set Business Goals and Achieve Them: An Enhanced Approach

How to set business goals and achieve them needs to be addressed through a system that integrates scorecards with the processes that created the performance-metric outputs.  This objective is achieved through the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) business management system. 

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