Learn and compare IEE to Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, and Balanced Scorecard. Find out the similarities and differences that take your company beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard.
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Are Measurements Leading to the Right Activity? One common type of scorecard uses red, yellow, and green to show whether immediate actions are needed relative to meeting established objectives: o Green: Meets all of the standards for success. o Yellow: Achieved some, but not all, of the criteria. o Red: Has any one of a number of serious flaws. Goals are important but arbitrary goal setting and management to obtain these goals can lead to the wrong behavior!
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Special Cause vs. Common Cause. Many businesses react to these two types of variability in the same way. Reacting to common cause variability as though it were special cause can lead to much resource-draining firefighting. There is a better way.
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An enhanced innovation strategy framework is achieved with the 9-step Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) business management system. With an IEE approach, an innovation strategy is not a silo activity but structurally a part of an overall business management system.
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Six Sigma does five principal things: It emphasizes the need to recognize opportunities and eliminate customer-defined defects. It recognizes that variation hinders ability to reliably deliver high-quality services. It requires data-driven decisions and incorporates a comprehensive set of quality tools under a framework for effective problem solving. It provides a highly perspective cultural infrastructure to effectively obtain sustainable results. And, when implemented correctly, it promises and delivers substantial improved operating profit.
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Learn how Oracle Packaging utilized Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) to create their long-term roadmap and improvement management system in driving an entrepreneurial culture, progressive thinking, and improved and leaner processes.
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Management must ask the right questions. The right questions lead to the wise use of statistical and non-statistical techniques to obtain knowledge from facts and data.
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View this podcast and explore how to achieve organizational performance improvements through the use of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence system. 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.
New book-volumes describe a business system that show how organizations can go beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard.
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The E-DMAIC system within an integrated enterprise excellence (IEE) process provides a scorecard approach that more structurally integrates and orchestrates a company’s whole system. Read more to learnd about the approach and it’s five characteristics.
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