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Why I like using the Ideal State Mapping approach

October 10, 2018October 11, 2018 bizpi Current State, facilitation, Future State, Ideal State, kaizen event, lean event, process map, value stream mapping, VSM

During Value Stream Mapping or Process Mapping events, I facilitate a team through the current state map of the process,

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How many of the 50 Best Practices for Process Excellence has your company implemented?

November 29, 2012May 15, 2018 bizpi 50, assessment, benchmarking, best practices, book, company, comparison, excellence, improvement, lean, pollock, process, qmss, score, Six Sigma, waste

Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele are authors of a new book, Reversing the Culture of Waste – 50 Best Practices to

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We don’t need any help, we are already lean!

July 25, 2012July 9, 2016 bizpi cycle time, deliver, employees, errors, improvement, lean, manufacturing, measure, multitasking, office, process, quality, reviews, Six Sigma, templates, throughput, transactional, value, wip, workplace

“Lean and Six Sigma are only for manufacturing organizations!”“Our processes/company is unique, so that won’t work here!”“We’re already lean because

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Simple Business Approach to Continuous Improvement

June 14, 2011August 6, 2016 bizpi customers, defects, employees, errors, expenses, finances, forms, improvement, mistakes, problems, process, revenue, sales, small business, solving

As we rolled out our Six Ideas to Improve Your Business Today, we got some feedback that businesses are looking

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Six business improvement ideas you can implement today!

June 13, 2011January 28, 2019 bizpi 5s, business, dummies, easy, help, improvement, problems, process, simple, small, small business

Sometimes us consultants get a bad reputation for making things more complicated than they need to be. We turn people

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Cost savings from process improvements can be misleading

April 25, 2011July 9, 2016 bizpi bottom line, chart, completions, cycle time, event, excel, financials, improvement, lean, process, project, reductions, savings, Six Sigma, variation, waste, wip

I’ve been to many conferences, and have seen lots of companies claim cost savings and metric improvements that are very

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Don’t “check the box” with soft improvement tools

January 7, 2010July 9, 2016 bizpi cause, communication, diagram, effect, fishbone, lean, map, mapping, networking, process, quality, Six Sigma, soft, stream, team, tools, value, value stream map, VSM

We recently were reminded of a problem that comes up every so often in regards to process improvement tools. The

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