Rick walks you through both the Lean Six Sigma related benefits of becoming a Master Black Belt, but also through the benefits in other areas that you can achieve. As part of this webinar, you will hear about the Smarter Solutions’ extraordinary Master Black Belt course. Listen in, and find out why so many people complete their Six Sigma journey with a MBB certification.
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Over 50 free business webinars online training describe enhanced methodologies for the execution and integration of predictive performance measures, analytically/innovatively determined strategies, and improvement efforts that benefit the enterprise as a whole. These free recorded business webinars describe very practical concepts that can be applied immediately in both manufacturing and transactional operations. An additional live
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How to increase revenue in business is a question that is often asked? To address this desire, a business may set goals throughout its functions; however, this common approach for increasing revenue can lead to playing games with the numbers and unhealthy, if not destructive, behaviors. Another approach for how to increase business revenue is
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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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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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Forrest Breyfogle is interviewed upon the completion of his 14th book – The Business Process Management Guidebook. He shares his motivation for his many books, inspiration behind Smarter Solutions, and insight into the Integrated Enterprise Excellence System of doing business.
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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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Kaplan and Norton in a paper in 1992 presented the traditionally-used balanced scorecard approach. This scorecarding system is to track businesses in the areas of: business processes (internal), customer, financial and learning and growth. Balanced Scorecard Approach and Performance Organizational Measurement Balance It is important to have balance in scorecards. The reason for
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A BPM system methodology is available for organizations to enhance their strategic planning process, scorecarding process, and process improvement methodology. This system integrates Business Process Management (BPM) with Enterprise Process Management (EPM) using an Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) approach. This methodology will be referenced as the IEE BPM/EPM system. Improving the Strategic Planning Process Organizations
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In this webinar, a structured methodology will be presented for addressing BPM deployment risks, which includes a business evaluation from an enterprise’s mission and vision through the business functions using a variant of Porter’s Value Chain. The described enhanced methodology ensures that the key business performance metrics are linked to an enterprise’s success and are identified and communicated throughout the business; provides a simple enterprise management system for business metrics; provides a method to identify and initiate the optimal improvement activities when performance is found to be unacceptable or a true constraint is identified; and ensures sustainability when adequate performance is achieved, which may or may not involve workflow automation.
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