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eSmarter News: Is a CEO Buy-in Mandatory before a Lean Six Sigma Deployment Initiation?
June 30, 2008 Edition I

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Is a CEO Buy-in Mandatory before a Lean Six Sigma Deployment Initiation?
Statement: Our team was told a successful Six Sigma deployment must have the CEO’s buy-in.

Response: Initial executive buy-in is no excuse for not working to advocacy sell the beginning of a wise deployment of Six Sigma with Lean and effective performance measures. Advocacy selling may be the first step toward jump starting a deployment that goes Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard.

Read my latest blog and discover an effective solution for Lean Six Sigma Deployment Initiation.
[ http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/forrestbreyfogle/?p=93 ]

What should you look for when it comes to E-learning – Distance Learning – Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt Training?

E-learning, distance learning, blended e-learning with standup training, and in-house Lean Six Sigma learning course developers can dramatically improve the effectiveness of training when there is a direct textbook linkage.

Purchase of Anheuser Busch by the Belgian Firm InBev and an Enterprise Governance System

We talk about how companies need to be good corporate citizens to the community where they are located. I believe Anheuser Busch has been a good corporate citizen to the St. Louis area. Will a Belgian firm have as much incentive to continue this behavior? I was deeply saddened by the news of the potential purchase of Anheuser Busch by the Belgian firm InBev. Because I was raised in the St. Louis area, I had several flashbacks.

Read my latest blog to find out more about the birthing of an Enterprise Governance System.
[ http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/forrestbreyfogle/?p=111 ]

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.

Making Information Technology A Competitive Advantage
Regrettably, many organizational leaders view information technology (IT) as a burdensome expense rather than a resource that can provide a competitive advantage. Seeking a better way, businesses are looking into deploying IT to its maximum potential by making the system the catalyst for instituting new improvement initiatives. Some of the newer efforts to make organizational improvements are devoted to deploying the DMAIC process on an enterprise-wide basis.

Four Principles for Jump-starting Performance Improvement - Introduction
Businesses large and small are using Lean Six Sigma to improve their organizations’ performance. Too often, however, they are viewing the methodology through myopic lenses. Asked how they deploy Lean Six Sigma, they describe initiatives that reduce defects or listen better to the voice of the customer. Asked how the initiatives affect the corporate bottom line, though, too few can provide concrete data.

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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