(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Health care and other organizations often report performance metrics through a table of numbers, pie charts, stacked bar charts, red-yellow-green scorecards with variance to goals, or time series charts. Running a facility by using this form of historical data reporting is like driving a car by only looking at the rearview mirror—an unhealthy practice.

Teaching design of experiments (DOE) to students is not an easy task. It is difficult to simulate the entire effort within the constraints of a classroom. You can teach the analysis with software, but this is not enough to really gain an understanding of DOE. Smarter Solutions Inc. is offering the webinar, “Design of Experiments Out of the Classroom,” which will be presented Wednesday, June 8, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT.

(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Everyone understands how lean Six Sigma tools—define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC)—are beneficial to the practitioner: They provide a system to solve true business problems in a project format. However, this emphasis on projects might limit the comprehensive effect a lean Six Sigma (LSS) practitioner can provide to an organization.