improvement

50 assessment benchmarking best practices book company comparison excellence improvement lean pollock process qmss score Six Sigma waste 

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

November 29, 2012November 11, 2019 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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business customers data document efficiency employees improvement lean optimization problems reduce report satisfaction Six Sigma sub time upset value waste 

Reducing your time might seem like lean, but you can easily anger your customers

August 18, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi business, customers, data, document, efficiency, employees, improvement, lean, optimization, problems, reduce, report, satisfaction, Six Sigma, sub, time, upset, value, waste

Lean is about increasing value to your customer. Often times, this requires you to eliminate waste in the process. However,

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8D A3 analysis data defects failure improvement PDCA problem quality recurrence root cause solving 

Problem solving is critical for any business

July 26, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi 8D, A3, analysis, data, defects, failure, improvement, PDCA, problem, quality, recurrence, root cause, solving

Does your company have a problem solving process, like PDCA or 8-D? If so, do people use it? How do

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cycle time deliver employees errors improvement lean manufacturing measure multitasking office process quality reviews Six Sigma templates throughput transactional value wip workplace 

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

July 25, 2012November 11, 2019 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

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Simple Business Approach to Continuous Improvement

June 14, 2011November 11, 2019 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, 2011November 11, 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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bottom line chart completions cycle time event excel financials improvement lean process project reductions savings Six Sigma variation waste wip 

Cost savings from process improvements can be misleading

April 25, 2011November 11, 2019 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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