Integrated Enterprise Excellence

The next generation business management system, Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE), integrates predictive scorecards with their processes. IEE provides an enhanced business management system that integrates analytically determined strategies with innovation so that improvement efforts give focus to enhancements so that the enterprise as a whole benefits.

Traditional performance scorecards such as a table of numbers, bar charts, or red-yellow-green scorecards can lead to unhealthy behaviors and/or wasteful firefighting activities. The 9-step IEE system avoids these issues and provides predictive scorecards that can lead to insight to where improvement efforts should give focus so that the enterprise as a whole benefits from process enhancement efforts.

Enterprise Performance Reporting System software (EPRS software) is available which provides automatic reporting of predictive process performance metrics that are linked with their processes.

The 30,000-foot-level predictive performance metric reporting system of IEE can also be used as a methodology to maintain the gain after a process has been enhanced.

Enhanced Corporate Performance Management Systems Framework

Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), and other process improvement efforts have helped organizations improve; however, these efforts often occur in organizational silos, where the benefits are not felt at the big picture executive level. Lean conference presentations often describe how all company associates in a spirit of organizational improvement need to continually identify and resolve waste-reduction problems; i.e., overproduction, waiting, transportation, inventory, over-processing, motion, and defects. Even though there can be significant benefits from these efforts, Lean practitioner conversations at those same conferences can be describing how their organization eliminated much operational waste only to find that executive management decided to close their facility. There are some elephant in the room business management governance policies that nobody seems to openly discuss. These topics and discussions can include red-yellow-green goal setting scorecards, variance to metric goal tracking, strategic planning sessions often lead to statements that are to have measurements and activities aligned to them, silo improvement efforts that don’t impact the big picture, control systems that are not effective (e.g., Sarbanes Oxley – SOX – did not prevent our current financial crisis from occurring. A business system to address the above issues and accomplish these objectives is the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system. In the IEE system, strategy is not step one but set five in a nine-step process. A Chief Performance Officer can use the IEE methodology for their Corporate Performance Management system.

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Enhanced Enterprise Performance Management System

The Enterprise process DMAIC roadmap provides a 21st century governance system that truly aligns scorecards, strategic planning, improvement plans, and control so that the enterprise as a whole benefits. E-DMAIC goes beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. This view of the way a company functions can change from a focus on doing whatever it takes to meet the quarterly financial goals (the Enron approach) to improving performance at all levels so the overall output always reflects the maximum potential for an entire enterprise.

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Creation of Deming System of Profound Knowledge Framework

Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean, and Lean Six Sigma are problem-solving methodology examples. Each of these problem solving approaches has strengths and weaknesses; however, these techniques are not an organizational governance system. Some regard governance as a collection of separate processes, or as a component of broader management or leadership processes. A more inclusive governance definition is the need for consistent cohesive management policies, processes and decision-rights throughout the enterprise. Ideally this governance system should incorporate what W. Edwards Deming referred to as System of Profound knowledge. An Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) roadmap system for this accomplishment is described in a 4 book-volume series.

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Enhanced Corporate Governance Model System

The American Management Association (AMA) describes a 21st-century governance system and how a company benefited from its deployment. The 9-step framework of the described Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) business management system provides a guiding-light roadmap for navigating through and beyond these challenging times. IEE provides a long-lasting system for structurally integrating healthy policy creation and deployment with a systematic blending of scorecards, strategic planning, business improvement, and control so that the enterprise as a whole benefits. IEE system goes beyond many traditional and recent management techniques such as the balanced scorecard. Acknowledgment: Posted with permission from the American Management Association as published in the Winter 2008 Edition of their MWorld Magazine.

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Enhanced Quality Management System Presentation

Specializing in coaching and consulting, we introduce to companies the next generation of Lean Six Sigma: Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE). With daily operations throughout the world, Smarter Solutions aspires to be the best world-class firm for designing and applying innovative enterprise-wide performance measures and business solutions.

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Establishing a Long Lasting Beneficial Malcolm Baldrige Framework

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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