Image via Wikipedia In Auditors Face Fraud Charge, the Wall Street Journal describes how New York prosecutors are planning to file civil fraud charges against Ernst & Young for its alleged role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The articles say how the Big Four accounting firm stood by while the investment bank misled investors [...]
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Choosing a Team for Helping Implement Lean Sigma across the Company
QUESTION How would you choose a team to help implement lean Sigma across the company? What criteria would you focus on when selecting the team members? RESPONSE: Look for leading thinking influencers who want to do the right thing for the organization as a whole through not only process improvement but improving the business system [...]
Deployment of Lean Six Sigma Training as a Business Management and Improvement System
QUESTION: Deployment of Lean Six Sigma training: Lean and Six Sigma principles and tools are currently actively used by our Internal Business Consulting Team. In order to support on-going improvements, we are now looking to deploy Six Sigma training across the organisation – providing certification to yellow belt level to selected individuals in operational areas. [...]
The Big Four Firms and the Financial Crisis
QUESTION Linkedin.com: The question was ask Big Four or Big Farce? One of the toughest questions, in relation to the global economic fiasco that I haven’t found an answer yet is, Why did the globally reputed the Big 4 advisories not give an advance warning of what’s coming? Did they not know or did they [...]
Hoshin Kanri and its Effectiveness
The driver and infrastructure of hoshin kanri center on the cascading of executive management’s strategies throughout the organization. The direction of work activity could significantly change when there is a significant change in executive leadership or leadership direction.
