These business management and quality/lean improvement articles (magazine) were written by Forrest Breyfogle and/or an associate/affiliation of Smarter Solutions, Inc. The provided papers have been published in magazines such as American Management Association MWorld, Quality Progress, Quality Magazine, Six Sigma Forum Magazine, Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Quality Management Forum, ASQ Statistics Division Newsletter, and ASQ Lean Division Newsletter. Topics include: Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE), 30,000-foot-level predictive metrics, lean Six Sigma, Business Process Management (BPM), Business Management System, Statistical Process Control (SPC) charting issues and resolution, enhanced business scorecards, and creating process improvement efforts so that the big picture benefits.
Over 50 of Forrest’s published BPM Articles, MIS Articles, and Lean Six Sigma Articles below describe the benefits of an enhanced Business Management System. This next-generation BPM 2.0 methodology enhances organizational KPI reporting and process improvement efforts so the enterprise as a whole benefit.
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Even though traditional control charting techniques have existed for more than 100 years, some critical charting mathematical properties can result in applications that are wasteful and harmful. The Quality Magazine article in the link below highlights potential control-charting issues and provide an alternative using a free 30,000-foot-level metric-reporting app. This published article is a
Organizations need quality metrics; however, the question is: what data quality metrics should an organization monitor, and how should these metrics be tracked and reported? This article provides a methodology to answer these questions, “smartly.”
Systems and Methods for Measuring and Reporting Enterprise Performance and Making Process Improvements is described in our May 2, 2023, released patent.
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Effective KPI management of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators is critical; however, there are issues with traditional metric reporting and its accompanying goal-setting practices. KPI metrics reporting is an elephant in the room problem where organizations can waste much time and resources that unnecessarily cost a lot of money and lead to much frustration.
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A free app for conducting a process capability study is available. With traditional process capability Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk indices reporting, there are fundamental “elephant in the room” problems that this app resolves.
Business goal setting is important; however, care needs to be exercised when executing and tracking performance measurements against stated objectives. If this is not done, very unhealthy behaviors can occur.
This Statistical Process Control Chart x bar and r chart example describes an effective way to create a high-level performance tracking system that includes a process capability report-out in one report-out. The described 30,000-foot-level reporting first assesses process stability from a high-level vantage point and then if the process is stable provides a capability statement, using terminology
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An effective lean Six Sigma 2.0 implementation plan aligns process improvement efforts to organizational key performance indicators (KPIs) improvement needs. With this alignment, process enhancement efforts can be made so that the enterprise as a whole benefits.
Organizations benefit when they execute an effectively lean six sigma implementation and organizational culture that is long-lasting. However, traditional deployments of lean Six Sigma often receive an early termination for various reason where these lean Six Sigma process improvement efforts never become a part of an organization’s DNA. What often occurs in these lean Six
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