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in BusinessHoneywell Turns the Corner

US conglomerate Honeywell have transformed themselves after a focus on quality and productivity.by cmimanagers / on Apr 15, 2012 -
in BusinessGE Able to Bring Jobs Home Thanks to Lean Methodology

General Electric is able to bring jobs back to America after adopting lean manufacturing to improve efficiency.by cmimanagers / on Apr 3, 2012 -
in BusinessChina Needs to Focus on Quality to Flourish

New research by the World Bank highlights the importance of quality to the Chinese economy.by cmimanagers / on Mar 19, 2012
Latest blogosphere posts tagged “six sigma”
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Saturday Learning Series - Six Sigma part 2
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MIT has a course on Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology. If you are interested, take a look. If not, its pretty dry. Im more posting these Six Sigma lectures for my own edification. Note -- Last week was part 1 .1 week ago -
Cronbach’s Alpha
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I came across the term since few years back through a MBA classmate. However, I never use it and know nothing about the test until recently where I really need it to test the internal consistency of a survey question I prepare for my Six Sigma activity. I believe most BB from engineering background do not aware the ...1 week ago -
Leadership and Strategy: To Go Lean, You First Must Lead
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Transforming an organization into a lean operation means empowering employees and being a cheerleader for change. Transforming an organization into a lean operation means empowering employees and being a cheerleader for change. read more1 week ago -
Xylem Design: Two-Second Lean
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Xylem Designs staff creates short videos showcasing the lean changes being made on the plant floor. Xylem Designs staff creates short videos showcasing the lean changes being made on the plant floor. read more1 week ago -
Text Analytics with Six Sigma
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Q&A, SAS 2013, and PayPal combines SixSigma with Text AnalytcisJust posting today briefly to mention a few things. First, on Seth Grimes’ new blog, Breakthrough Analysis, he recently asked me a couple of questions about OdinText/Text Analytics and Big Data in general. The title ‘Think Mid Data, and ...1 week ago -
Lean Sales Methods Webinar
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During the week of June 3rd, the Business901 blog and Podcast will be dedicated to the latest thoughts on utilizing Lean Sales Methods in organizations. At the end of the week, Friday June 7th, I will host a webinar on Lean Sales Methods followed by an interactive session and a Q and A. Only registered participants ...1 week ago -
TV Producer Seeks Manufacturing (and other) Business Owners for Reality Show
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Interested in showcasing your company on a reality TV show? Read on. The Manufacturers Agenda read more1 week ago -
Going to Gemba vs. Statistical Analysis
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Early in my professional career I worked as a Process Engineer at Nokia (in their mobile phone division). I had many responsibilities but, ultimately, my most important job centered on ensuring all of the equipment was producing cell phones that worked the first time. Go to Gemba We lean practitioners often ...1 week ago -
Is Lean Playing to Win? Part 2 of 2
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This is a response to a recent LinkedIn thread, What do we have to do to have Lean survive a leadership change? . This is part 2 of 2 my response. The first blog post, Is Lean Playing to Win? Part 1 of 2 . If a leadership change occurs, the first challenge is to grow revenue. If Lean has been implemented and you ...1 week ago -
Is Lean Playing to Win? Part 1 of 2
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In a recent LinkedIn thread, What do we have to do to have Lean survive a leadership change? , I found most of the comments following the age old line that the reason for Lean failures can always be summed up in one word, leadership. I even left the following comment; “My first thought when I read this thread: Will ...2 weeks ago -
Saturday Learning Series - Six Sigma Course from MIT (Part 1)
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MIT has a course on Six Sigma. I was curious about it and started watching the video. I thought that it might be a good course to bring back the Saturday Learning Series. We shall see, it could be as dull as wet paste. But Ill be sharing the videos over the next few weeks at least. If you arent familiar ...2 weeks ago -
Knee Jerk Statistics
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The folks over at Minitab recently wrote an excellent article about how a Six Sigma practitioner leveraged binary logistic regression analysis in order to better understand why associates at a manufacturing plant were quitting. What they learned The team discovered that the distance the employee drove to ...2 weeks ago -
Shaping your Customers Vision
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Are you looking at growth strategies from a customer’s viewpoint? This past week I have referred to the concept of Service Dominant Logic several times and how your value proposition can be viewed from the point of use. This type of thinking opens up a new context for innovation and growth. It moves you past ...3 weeks ago -
What You May Have Missed from the IndustryWeek Best Plants Conference
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If you missed the 2013 IndustryWeek Best Plants conference, you missed a lot. Fortunately, we are working on articles, video and photos to tell the tale of this annual event. Here are the very first fruits of our efforts, but not the last. Labor & Operations Leadership read more3 weeks ago -
Ariens: Seven Skills of a Lean Leader
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Ariens CEO outlines qualities needed to sustain the lean journey. Ariens CEO outlines qualities needed to sustain the lean journey. read more3 weeks ago -
Using Binary Logistic Regression to Investigate High Employee Turnover
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Human resources might not be a business area where you’d typically expect to conduct a Six Sigma project. However, Jeff Parks, Lean Six Sigma master black belt, found the opportunity to apply Six Sigma to human resources while leading quality improvement efforts at a large manufacturer of aerospace engine parts. ...3 weeks ago -
Bringing Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Disciplines Into Legal Services: A CCCA Spring Conference Workshop
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These are notes from a workshop by Patricia Olah and Andrew Terrett of BLG Adroit from Borden Ladner Gervais , on April 15, 2013 at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association National Spring Conference 2013 in Toronto. Note: these are my selected notes from this session; any inaccuracies or omissions are my ...3 weeks ago -
The Problem with A3 Reports
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The A3 report may be one of the most misunderstood lean thinking tools of our time. Why do I say this? Simple. It’s Just a Piece of Paper The A3 report, in and of itself, is nothing more than a piece of paper. But, for some reason, many people believe that the A3 report – by itself – will magically solve ...3 weeks ago -
Standards create the WOW in Business
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Many people see Lean as another process methodology still mired down in the process thinking world of the eighties and nineties. The facts are that companies, such as Danaher, Toyota, Ingersoll Rand and Amazon have embraced Lean thinking or similar concepts and have excelled in the new millennium. What makes these ...3 weeks ago -
Using Lean as a Growth Strategy
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If you are successful at implementing Lean, it is simply not Lean. It’s yours. I first studied TQM back in nineteen-eighties which served as my precursor for Lean. Along the way, I was primarily influenced by Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking. I always found my roots and practices best ...4 weeks ago


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