How to do Lean Six Sigma
How to do lean Six Sigma is a question that is often asked. Described are what might be considered traditional lean Six Sigma best practices.
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Quality Digest Live: Interview with Forrest Breyfogle, III
Forrest Breyfogle was interviewd by Quality Digest at the Quality Expo in Chicago in September 2011, where they discuss the future of quality and the future of manufacturing. *YouTube video, requires appropriate plugins. The full Quality Digest Live segment can be viewed at: http://www.qualitydigest.com/_qd.video_player.php?category=118&video=16271
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Truly Understanding Hypothesis Testing Concepts Making a Complex Topic Simple
Hypothesis testing is a concept that is taught in Lean Six Sigma and statistics courses. It is likely the least understood concept taught in both genre. In this webinar, we will walk through the concepts of a and b risk along with power and confidence choices using a completely different method than you would have been taught in a class. Through the use of diagrams and simulations, we will make the hypothesis concepts real and understandable. This could be the most informative hour your have every experienced! This may make much of your LSS training finally make sense. At the end of this webinar, the participant will be able to understand all hypothesis tests concepts and to be absolutely confident of the testing conclusions.
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Lean Six Sigma Project Benefits: Business Impact
How to determine lean Six Sigma project benefits? Should benefits only be reflected in the financials or should other aspects be considered?
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Enhancing Voice Of The Customer Metrics
Most organizational improvement efforts are not sustainable, in part,because improvement projects are often created in silos and do not make a positive impact on the big picture and VOC needs. The Integrated Enterprise Excellence 9-step system overcomes this by analyzing the business as a whole, creating strategies determined through analysis and innovation, and then establishing operational scorecard goals for targeted value-chain scorecards. To implement this business system, one manufacturer took each of these steps and used the method as a roadmap for targeted improvement projects. Read the full article to see what happened.
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Red Yellow Green Rating Scale in Scorecards: What should the colors mean?
A fresh look at a red yellow green rating scale for scorecard colors can provide a better expected behavior than target tracking of individual numbers against an objective.
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Enhanced Risk Management Plan in an Overall Business Management System
Organizations need a systematic approach for risk containment when quality, delivery, and design product and service issues occur. Such a system should also help them to recover quickly from errant decisions made by executives, operations personnel, and the quality department. This article describes how well-chosen metrics can help mitigate these risks if the measurements contain good tracking and reporting methods that lead to the most appropriate action.
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Digital Statistics Tables
Most practitioners do not frequently use the statistics tables, such as the normal distribution and t distribution. You may not have used them since your last Lean Six Sigma or statistics class. Is the lack of use due to the availability? If you would like a digital copy of the statistics table that has no intellectual property or copyright restrictions, download it here. This is an Excel workbook file, with all the equations that are used. Load it onto your laptop or your mobile device for quick access.
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Enhanced SPC P-chart can Include Capability Statement in One Chart
An enhanced Statistical Process Control SPC p-chart approach provides in one chart both a process stability and capability assessment/statement. The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) enhanced SPC p-chart 30,000-foot-level measurement approach for non-conformance rate time-series tracking of data (i.e., from a high-level overall process output point of view) also provides a prediction statement when a process
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The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System [PDF]
This book is an overview of a three-volume hardcover set (Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volumes I-III). It discusses how the application of IEE methods, tools, and techniques can overcome the enterprise management challenges of the twenty-first century and the limitations of traditional business measurement systems. Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) is a new organizational governance system that integrates analytics with innovation. The IEE system shows business leaders what to measure and report; when and how to report it; how to interpret and use the results to establish goals; how to orchestrate work activities; and how to develop strategies that are consistent with established goals. These strategies ultimately lead to specific projects that enhance organizational focus and success.
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