30,000-foot-level Charting: Attribute Data
Attribute, pass/fail proportion data, can be monitored over time for stability and then, when a process is stable, provide a prediction statement.
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Attribute, pass/fail proportion data, can be monitored over time for stability and then, when a process is stable, provide a prediction statement.
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Time-series data that have multiple subgroup samples can be monitored over time for stability and then, when a process is stable, provide a prediction statement.
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When non-normally distributed data are tracked over time at the 30,000-foot-level, process stability is to be assessed and a predictive statement provided, when appropriate. However, to make these assessments, a transformation that makes physical sense for this assessment may be needed.
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Forrest Breyfogle discusses how the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system works to help organizations manage scorecards, metrics, performance reporting, improvement projects, and strategic planning. IEE is an enhanced business methodology that addresses many shortcomings of current management practices. Integrated Enterprise Excellence is a nine step business system. This video briefly describes how these nine steps are used to effectively manage and drive improvements that positively impact the enterprise.
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CEO, Forrest Breyfogle, explains why your organization could benefit from the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system. Forrest discusses opportunities in leadership, business systems, strategies, performance reporting, improvement projects, scorecard metrics, as well as culture and how the IEE 9-step business system can address these needs.
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A lean Six Sigma improvement project needs to following a DMAIC roadmap so that the best lean or Six Sigma tools are used at appropriate times. A consistent define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) roadmap is also needed so that the same approach (with all its execution details) for executing improvement projects is used across the organization.
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Described is a Statistical Engineering business management approach where a unique predictive organizational performance measurement and improvement system can be used to orchestrate efforts for addressing today’s challenges. This system provides an integrated methodology where organizations can “look out their car’s windshield” and, if they don’t like what they see, can make adjustments through targeted Lean Six Sigma and other improvement efforts that positively impact the business as a whole. This session will illustrate the application of these Statistical Engineering methods to a hospital showing how not only mean operational/financial responses can be improved and demonstrated, but how a reduction in the metric’s variability can occur as well.
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This webinar will cover the benefits related to adding a Master Black Belt (MBB) certification to your resume. We will cover the body-of-knowledge associated with this certification and how Smarter Solutions provides it in a two-week course. What will be covered: – Advanced analysis tools (For project execution and coaching, covering how and why the tools are used.) – Adult learning and instruction (To support coaching and instructional assignments.) – Business leadership skills (To provide skills to help when you have responsibility for change but no authority to drive it.) – Improvement program management (To provide insight and lessons learned related to managing the improvement program for your employer.) – Plus a chance to have any questions that you may have on Lean Six Sigma or statistics answered. Even if you are not assuming a MBB role in your job, these skills will prepare you for success in almost any business situation. We will also introduce a new analytic role being created in many businesses, that a MBB is perfectly trained to fulfill.
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To be competitive, organizations need continuous improvement efforts working internally and throughout their supply chains. How can this type of system be created so that it is both immediately beneficial and able to maintain its integrity through inevitable leadership and organizational changes? This article presents a clear mechanism for selecting improvement projects that benefit the business as a whole and avoids projects that profit a single silo.
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In a professional career spanning over a quarter century, Forrest Breyfogle has established himself as a leading edge thinker, a prolific author, an innovative consultant, a world-class educator, and a successful business executive. He has authored or co-authored 13 books. He recently completed a five-book set, Integrated Enterprise Excellence, that provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Mr. Breyfogle was named Quality Professional of the Year for 2011 by Quality Magazine. He also received the prestigious Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2004 for an earlier book, Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd ed. Forrest is currently located in Austin, Texas where he founded Smarter Solutions, Inc. in 1992. *YouTube video, requires appropriate plugins.
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