The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System: Benefits and Implementation

The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system is a business management governance system that is sustainable even through leadership changes. Integrated Enterprise Excellence integrates business scorecards, strategies, and process improvement. Integrated Enterprise Excellence moves organizations toward achieving the three Rs of business; i.e., everyone is doing the Right things and doing them Right at the Right time. Integrated Enterprise Excellence provides the framework for integrating analytics, innovation, and continual improvement. Integrated Enterprise Excellence goes beyond Lean Six Sigma’s project based defect reduction and waste reduction methods. Business existence and excellence depends on more customers and cash; i.e., E = MC**2. IEE provides a business way of life for organizational orchestration to achieve more customer and cash.

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Bill Wiggenhorn, Retired President of Motorola University says, “Forrest’s IEE system is not simply a methodology for doing Six Sigma projects. IEE offers an overall management system that provides the framework where companies can implement and benefit from Dr. Deming’s methodologies.”
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Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system provides a framework for organizations to resolve the following frequently encountered problems:
- Business goals are not being met
- Scorecards often lead to the wrong activities
- Day-to-day firefighting of problems that don’t seem to go away
- Business strategies that are very generic and/or difficult to translate to organizational work environments
- Create and develop innovative ideas that can be very beneficial to customers and the business as a whole are not being implemented
- Lean events and other improvement projects consume a lot of resources but often do not have much, if any, quantifiable benefit to the business as a whole
- Lean Six Sigma:
– Existing deployment that has projects, which are either not timely completed or reporting large financial claims that often cannot be translated into true benefits for the business as a whole
– Existing deployment that has stalled out and needs rejuvenation
– New deployment desires to create a system where improvement and design projects are in true alignment with business needs and where projects are executed using an effective roadmap that truly integrates Six Sigma with Lean tools

Several options to learn more about IEE are:
* Reading the 4-page article in center of the descriptive brochure that is available through a “Download IEE Brochure” link at www.SmarterSolutions.com
* Reading the “The Three Rs of Business” article; available through the “On-line Resource Center” at www.SmarterSolutions.com
* Reading the book “The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvements.” (See description below)
* Reading the four book-volume series on IEE. This series provides roadmaps for implementation and execution both at the enterprise and project level as well. (See description below)
* Participating in an IEE webinar.
* Participating/reviewing “Blog with Forrest.”
* Attending a one-day Integrated Enterprise Excellence Workshop

The book, The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement, introduced new perspectives on what to measure and report; when and how to report it; how to interpret the results; and how to use the results to establish goals, prioritize work efforts, and continuously enhance organizational focus and success.

In the three-volume series, Integrated Enterprise Excellence: Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard, there is both further elaboration on the shortcomings of traditional systems and the details of an IEE implementation.
A content summary of this volume series is:
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume I-The Basics: Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard-An IEE onset story about four friends who share their experiences while playing golf. They see how they can improve their games in both business and golf using this system, which goes beyond Lean Six Sigma and the balanced scorecard. The story compares IEE to other improvement systems.
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume II—Business Deployment: A Leaders’ Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard-Discusses problems encountered with traditional scorecard, business management, and enterprise improvement systems. Describes how IEE helps organizations overcome these issues utilizing an enterprise process define-measure-analyze-improve-control (E-DMAIC) system. Volume II systematically walks through the execution of this E-DMAIC system.
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume III-Improvement Project Execution: A Management and Black Belt Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard-Describes IEE benefits and its measurement techniques. Provides a detailed step-by-step project define-measure-analyze-improve-control (P-DMAIC) roadmap, which has a true integration of Six Sigma and Lean tools.

Forrest Breyfogle
Forrest@SmarterSolutions.com
www.SmarterSolutions.com
Author and developer of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence System