Posts from ‘November, 2009’

This week I am conducting an Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) workout within a client’s office. In this week, we will be creating the Enterprise process DMAIC system business management system; i.e., the center section of Figure 2 as described in the article “Corporate Performance Management: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System” Usually within an IEE workout [...]

Often organizations are attempting to mimic the Toyota Production System (TPS) without achieving the success that Toyota has received. These companies are finding that their most of their kaizen improvement activities are not positively impacting the overall corporate financials. For example, Delphi winning many Shingo Prizes but still has financial difficulties. Described later is a [...]

In A Management Philosopher With Heady Ideas About Beer, Stephen Miller wrote in the Wall Street Journal how Russell Ackoff was an evangelist of the big picture who as a management theorist helped U.S. corporations with the challenges for restructuring opportunities. Russell Ackoff died Oct 29, 2009 at the age of 90. He was considered [...]

Often Information Technology (IT) is viewed as a trouble some relative to its expenses rather than being a positive resource that can lead to bottom-line benefits for the whole organization. Metrics can also be created for the purpose of showing the value of Information Technology in a company. Information Technology (IT) has the opportunity to [...]

QUESTION: I’m currently working for one of the Biggest Government Owned Manufacturing-Agro-Industry-Trading Holding Company (BUMN) that manage 15 subsidiary companies as IT Solution Architect and ICT Advisor. I’m assisting the Corporate Decision Makers and the CIO to establish the Integrated Information System, Business Intelligence (BI) and the Business Process Management (BPM). So far that I’ve [...]