Posts Tagged ‘Forrest Breyfogle’

A job loss can be an unintended consequence resulting from answering the wrong questions. Employees get direction from their managers on what they should be doing. However, often many traditional tasks over the years can be out dated or have little value in helping the organization’s big picture. Managers can be asking questions of their [...]

It has been written by Peter Senge that learning disabilities are tragic in children but fatal in organizations. Because of these learning disabilities, few corporations live even half as long as a person. Most organizations die before they reach the age of 40. Learning Organizations are a means to avoid these issues and unintended consequence [...]

When calculating Cp and Cpk process capability indices from an individuals control chart, there is often not an appreciation of how the control chart’s subgrouping interval can impact the reported Cp and Cpk value. Cp and Cpk process capability indices determination equation is similar to the Pp and Ppk process performance indices determination. With Cp [...]

QUESTION: What are the steps to implement successfully Lean? If I could have a 2D map with the tools in one axis and the level of culture in the other one; how would it look like?

The book, 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 the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) helps organizations overcome these issues utilizing an enterprise process define-measure-analyze-improve-control (E-DMAIC) system. Systematically walks [...]