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• Managers, there are only three answers to employee questions

  
  Cube Rules — Authority: 537
  Managers have a formal way of evaluating an employee’s work — the performance review. Most people working in cubes don’t have the same formal option to evaluate their manager, but that doesn’t mean employees are not rating managers. Employees do that all the time. You can have twenty-seven ways in an article ...
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• Lean Tools and Culture as it Relates to Zen

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  There’s been a big debate lately on tools and the thinking processes of lean.When you talk about a system, one of the first things that I think of is the tools that are used in the system. I use the tools to make sense out of a system, but I thought that Michael Balle author of the Lean Manager might feel ...
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• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt – Training Course in Brighton, UK

  
  IT EVENT — Authority: 440
  November 19, 2009 to November 20, 2009 Silicon Beach Training Brighton, UK The Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training course offers delegates an understanding of Lean Six Sigma tools and processes. Delegates who will manage Six Sigma projects and require a broad knowledge of Lean Six Sigma tools should assist ...
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• Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Shingo Prize winner Michael Balle

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine , a bestselling business novel of a Lean Turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of a Lean Transformation both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...
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• Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Michael Balle, co-author of The Lean Manager

  
  Business901 — Authority: 91
  Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine, a bestselling business novel of lean turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of lean transformation, both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...
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• Sponsor Event: Eliminate Ineffective Silos and Achieve Company-Wide Process Improvement Success

  
  Procurement Insights — Authority: 128
  Occasionally I will post an event that I feel will be of interest to my readers. Forrest Breyfogle III has been a guest on the PI Window Business on two separate segments.  His first appearance was on April 23rd, 2009 on a show titled “ Unemployed Excellence – Why Lean, Six Sigma Have Left Some People Out in the ...
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• Approaches to Change

  
  Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir — Authority: 127
  Axelrod discusses in his book titled: Terms of Engagement, four approaches to change: i) Leader-driven approach, ii) Process-driven approach, iii) Team-driven approach, and iv) Change Management approach. Leader-driven change is more suitable for small and medium enterprises with owner-managers. This approach works ...
  3 days ago

• Process Improvement utilizing Lean and Lean Sigma

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Glenn Whitfield serves as Director of Dean Dorton Ford ’s Process Improvement Services group based out of the Louisville office. Glenn was my guest on the Business901 Podcast and we had the opportunity to discuss DDF’s methodology for improvement within an organization. Their methodology concentrates on a Value ...
  3 days ago

• A Little more on applying Little’s Law to Lean your Marketing!

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  In a previous post, I transformed Little’s Law to marketing utilizing this formula: Marketing Cycle Time = Customers in Process / Closed Sales. I would like to simplify this formula and change the nomenclature a little. I think more accurately it should be called Sales and Marketing Process Time(SMPT) = Prospects ...
  5 days ago

• Process Engineer

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 154
  Process Engineer The responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following: (1) Manage the efficiency and performance of product plant equipment with a view to optimising the productivity of the manufacturing lines. Devise clear performance targets and report on these to the Senior Management ...
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• A Little Law applied in Lean Marketing

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Most marketing systems are out of control. They just have not been managed with understanding the process speed and the effect of the flow on the process. Understanding some of the drivers of this process is much simpler than you might think. A simple equation called Little’s Law can tell us how long it will take ...
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• Most Marketing Systems are Out of Control.

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Most Marketing systems are out of control. They have not been managed with understanding of the process speed and the effect of the flow on the process. As a result, performance has to be sub-standard. My marketing has too many variables to define my Value Stream! Can you afford to say that? Depending on your ...
  6 days ago

• Steps to creating your Need Statement

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  The other day, I discussed Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem , but how do you go about doing it. A simple exercise that I found useful was depicted in the book: True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Make by Tim Kelly. In the book, he discusses ...
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• Implementing Lean – As fast as a Pit Crew?

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  At the recent AME Conference , Performance Instruction and Training offered sessions that allowed you to experience their unique style of learning. The concepts PIP teaches motorsports pit crews to conduct sub 13-second pit-stops relate to your business and drive home the concepts of lean, Six Sigma, and continuous ...
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• Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Today’s products and services reflect greater marketing segmentation. As you know, I use the Duct Tape Marketing Hourglass as The Pillar of the Lean Marketing House™ but there is no universal terminology, it is just convenient to stay with one message because even as you segment your list you still have to ...
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• Start your Visual Thinking Process with Mind Mapping

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Davinci did it, Aristotle did it, should you? Mind mapping is widely understood term but few people utilize it. I am amazed that even on our school systems that it still does not replace linear note taking. Mind Map represents the best of both worlds by resembling the visual aspects of a flow chart and the ...
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• Power of Visual Thinking in your Visual Workplace

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  If you follow my blog you know the respect I have for the David Armano and the Logic & Emotion Blog. David had a great blog post on the power of visual thinking and also shared this slideshow presentation. A clear demonstration of visual thinking. An excerpt from the Blog Post… The Value of Visual Thinking ...
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• Advocating The Six Sigma System For Project Management

  
  Kusna's Blog — Authority: 446
  Improvement in the quality of products and services is the key to attain the above-mentioned objectives. Some of these quality improvement techniques used by companies include the Six Sigma methodology and Total Quality Control techniques. Although most of these quality improvement strategies do have their share of ...
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• Finding A Job In A Poor Economy

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 162
  The current economic drought has led to a sweeping loss of jobs across the nation, and many companies are either letting people go, reducing their hiring policies, or increasing the qualifications for potential employees. It can be frustrating, stressful, and difficult to try and find employment in the economy’s ...
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• Minitab trick / tip

  
  learnsigma — Authority: 123
  This simple problem recently puzzled me one night, to the point where I couldn’t sleep. This made me a slave to coffee until I solved it: How do I overlay two normal curves that have the same mean, but different standard deviations? For example, I wanted one curve to use the within-subgroup standard deviation and ...
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