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eSmarter News: Has Strategy Become A Business "Catchall" Term?
July 31, 2008 Edition I

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Has Strategy Become A Business "Catchall" Term?
In the most simple terms, what is a business strategy? How does a company obtain, and effectively communicate and adapt their strategy to time and competitive forces? We hear it all the time: Business leaders must have a strategy to meet their objectives. Without a strategy, time and resources can be wasted on piecemeal, disparate activities. Without a strategy, mid-level managers will fill the void with their interpretation of what the business should be doing, typically resulting in a disjointed set of activities. An organization can spend much time creating such a strategic listing; however, an organization can often have difficulty interpreting what the strategy is as it cascades throughout the company.

Read my latest blog and discover effective solutions for creating, developing, executing, managing and sustaining a true value-add strategy for your company.
[ http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/forrestbreyfogle/?p=149 ]

Common Issues with Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk Reporting
Organizations need balanced scorecard performance metrics and books to guide them so that the business as a whole benefits from activities these metrics can stimulate.

Teaching Organizational 'Creative' Innovation, which Benefits the Enterprise as a Whole
A company can have great innovation (whether there is Lean Six Sigma or not); however, the organization often does not benefit from the created innovative technologies. Creativity is a process of creating unusual associations among mental objects. Invention is a result of creative problem solving. Creativity can sometime result when there is an association of the right combination of objects.

Read my latest blog and discover 5 ways to creative problem solving.
[ http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/forrestbreyfogle/?p=126 ]

Recent Online Resource Library Assets
Are you looking for online resources to help you with your daily process challenges? We have just the answer for you with our Online Resource Library.

A 21st Century Framework for Malcolm Baldrige Award Achievement: Integrated Enterprise Excellence - Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard (Part 1 of 2)
Management must ask the right questions. The right questions lead to the wise use of statistical and non-statistical techniques to obtain knowledge from facts and data. Management needs to operate using the bromide: In God we trust; all others bring data. The book, The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System, describes how to operate with a knowledge-centered activity focus, which can redirect businesses so that efforts are more productive. Organizations can have success using the Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria, Lean Six Sigma, or some other methodology. However, these techniques do not provide a basic high-level business framework that provides whole, long-lasting benefits to the enterprise system.

An Interview with Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I - The Basics
Listen to this podcast and explore how to achieve organizational performance improvements through the use of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence system. During our discussion, Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I - The Basics: Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard and CEO of Smarter Solutions, a global management coaching and consulting firm specializing in the design and application of innovative enterprise-wide performance measures and business solutions.

Introducing to some and presenting to others, the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) guided approach introduces and shows in great detail:

With further elaboration on the shortcomings of traditional systems and the details of an IEE implementation, each volume builds upon one another so organizations develop a true appreciation and understanding of IEE benefits and its implementation.

Smarter Solutions, Inc. recently released a "new look and feel" to its online store. We invite each of you to visit and order from the online store. Here are some of the merchandise and literature available:

Wisdom on The Green: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/product.php?productid=6&cat=2&page=1
Lean Six Sigma In Sickness & In Health: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/product.php?productid=4&cat=2&page=1
Managing Six Sigma: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/product.php?productid=5&cat=2&page=1
Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd Ed.: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/product.php?productid=3&cat=2&page=1
Solutions Manual: Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd ed.: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/product.php?productid=2&cat=2&page=1
Four Book Series: http://www.smartersolutions.com/store/

Smarter Solutions, Inc. offers Lean Six Sigma Executive Overview Webinar
Frustrations In Enterprise Improvement

Thursday, August 7, 2008
10am PT/ 11am MT/ 12pm CT/ 1pm ET
Duration: 60 minutes
Presented by: Smarter Solutions, Inc.

Are you tired of spending endless amounts of energy working on tasks not in alignment with the needs of the business?

Join our own Forrest W. Breyfogle, III as he presents business improvement concepts and techniques that enhance and increase your company's financial and operational success. For more information or to REGISTER below.

http://www.smartersolutions.com/webinars/08072008WB1.htm

Executive One-Day: Achieving Enterprise Excellence - http://smartersolutions.com/theeaglesview.htm

Master Black Belt Training - http://www.smartersolutions.com/masterblackbelt.htm

Lean Six Sigma Graduate Workshop - http://www.smartersolutions.com/postblackbelt.htm

Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) Workshop - http://www.smartersolutions.com/designforsixsigma.htm

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