Root Cause Analysis Methodology in an Enhanced Business Management System: Description and Webinar

The Lean Six Sigma toolset is not very efficient in addressing root cause identification for an single event (special-cause event) or problem, it works best to address chronic (common-cause problem) issues. That should not imply that there are not Lean Six Sigma tools that can be used to support a root cause analysis or corrective action effort. In this webinar we will show you a set of Lean Six Sigma tools that can be applied to these efforts, which may seem familiar to an RCA practitioner but they have different names in Lean Six Sigma. We will work through a general corrective action event and show how the Lean Six Sigma practitioner can use their skills to quickly determine the root causes in a method that everyone will understand. Take-aways: – Identify the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC tools that are beneficial in a RCA; – Describe how the use of the DMAIC tools overcome one of the great weaknesses in RCA.

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Scorecard Development Process in an Enhanced Business Management System: Description and Webinar

An enhanced scorecard development process is available through the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) Business Management System.  The IEE system provides among other things scorecard reporting from a process output point of view that includes variability associated with the process.

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Reporting Business Performance in an Enhanced Business Management System: Description and Webinar

If you are at the receiving end of fire-fighting activities that are triggered by a late recognition of performance changes, then this topic may be considered as a fire-prevention webinar. In the DMAIC measure phase and analyze phase, we are taught many tools that can assess a process’ performance before working a project. Unfortunately, our organizational leadership does not support using these tools to evaluate routine performance. In this webinar we will show how to use the measure-phase tools (control charting) to perform routine assessments and build a set of rules that trigger an action before a problem occurs, and to use the analyze-phase tools (hypothesis tests) to evaluate if the difference we see between people or departments is real (significant) or just a random difference (non-significant). How much smoother could things operate if we tested our beliefs before we jumped to take action?

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Strategic Planning Process in an Enhanced Business Management System: Description and Webinar

Does it appear that some strategic plans sound more like vision statements than actual strategies? It may be because many strategic plans are generated by committees using brainstorming and other opinion based tools. These are considered Lean Six Sigma DMAIC measure-phase tools. Have you considered using the define-phase concepts instead? In the webinar we will walk through the use of many DMAIC define-phase tools along with a few others that you can use to support a strategic planning session for your organization. You will be able to quickly see that these Lean Six Sigma tools could be used to eliminate the vision-type strategies from ever making it out of the session.

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Decisions Made in a Silo

Most companies build their organizational charts around the concept of silos, which Forrest W. Breyfogle III says can cause significant problems because decisions made in a silo are not necessarily made in the best interest of the entire company. As the founder of Smarter Solutions, a provider of Lean Six Sigma coaching, consulting and training services, Forrest has experienced this challenge firsthand. Most Six Sigma projects originate within a…

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Binary Logistic Regression Using Minitab

In this webinar we will introduce the concept of binary logistic regression using Minitab. This tool can be used to analyze process data that has only a pass/fail output. We will primarily discuss the use of continuous variables as predictors (or causes), but we will also discuss how to use the tool to perform a logistic ANOVA or a logistic DOE. **The audio will begin a few minutes before the video appears.

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SIPOC: The Starting Point for a Value Stream Map

In this webinar we will start with a typical SIPOC analysis of a process and show how it can be leveraged into a Value Stream Map (VSM). This knowledge will let the improvement practitioner, that is facing a more Lean-like problem, move rapidly from the project definition to a working VSM that can be the starting point for a waste or time reduction improvement effort. Take-aways: – Shows the relationship between the SIPOC and VSM; – Gives the practitioner a method to quick-start a VSM for any project.

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