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Catherine Jimerson, online preregistration user (seated) and Meg Nicklas, director of WCA Hospital patient access services, (standing) cut the ribbon, officially announcing the new WCA Hospital online preregistration service. (WCA Hospital: Jamestown, New…
(Smarter Solutions Inc.: Austin, Texas) -- Today’s Six Sigma Black Belts need more than technical and analytical skills. They also must work with others, using capabilities that include teaching, mentoring, coaching, and motivating. Here are 10 capabilities essential for a Black Belt today, as…
(Instantis: Santa Clara, California) Join Stephan Schwarz, DuPont Master Black Belt, Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST, as he leads a focused session describing best practices and lessons learned from one of the largest, most iconic, and successful operational excellence deployments in…
(WCBF: Las Vegas) -- WCBF will host the Seventh Annual Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit in Las Vegas, April 1–4, 2008. The focus will be on lean, Six Sigma, and other process improvement methodologies within the health care system. The summit will feature nine presummit…
(PowerSteering: Cambridge, Massachussetts).--PowerSteering, the only on-demand, enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) software used to manage information technology, Six Sigma, product development, and other enterprise initiatives, recently announced that its 2007 sales increased by 58…
From left, Col. Michael Pelletier, 555th Aircraft Sustainment Squadron commander; Col. James Fulton, 727th Aircraft Sustainment Group commander; DeLana Aylor, 448th Combat Sustainment Wing financial management; and Ernie Guttery, 76th Maintenance Support Group, discuss their…
Guest speaker Julie Rushin, director at Internal Revenue Service’s strategy and finance division (ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Lean Six Sigma experts from around the world will gather at the 8th Annual American Society for Quality Lean Six Sigma Conference Feb. 11-12…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality’s 2008 World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 5-7, 2008 in Houston, Texas, will provide attendees with a myriad of improvement opportunities. More than 90 breakout sessions are planned ranging from topics on business excellence,…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- Each year the Baldrige National Quality Program recruits experts from businesses, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofits and other groups to serve as members of the board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.…
Tim Solso, Six Sigma CEO of the Year (Global Six Sigma Summit: Las Vegas, Nevada) -- Texas-based Valley Baptist Health System collected three accolades—the highest number ever collected—at the Global Six Sigma Summit & Industry Awards.As well as receiving…
(Avery Point Group: Atlanta) -- According to an annual study by executive search firm The Avery Point Group, there are increasing signs that lean and Six Sigma are finally achieving parity in the job market.“Trends in industry are often telegraphed into candidate requirements in job postings, and…
(NOVACES: New Orleans) -- The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery recently presented a contract to NOVACES to implement lean Six Sigma throughout the Navy Medical Logistics Command.As a provider of business process improvement methodologies, NOVACES will guide the implementation of a change in…
(Dyadem: Toronto) -- Dyadem, a provider of quality life cycle management and risk life cycle management software, has helped Maidstone Bakeries bring the world a better donut. In the process, Maidstone has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars through the use of Six Sigma methodology and…
(Enna Products Corp.: Bellingham, Washington) -- Enna Products Corp. and Norman Bodek have published a new hardcover book by Shigeo Shingo, Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking. Along with Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Shingo codeveloped the Toyota production system (TPS). Originally written in 1958-59,…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- In The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments, authors Karen Martin and Mike Osterling provide a practical how-to guide for planning and executing kaizen events in office and administrative settings, and…
(Inderscience Publishers: Geneva, Switzerland) -- A special issue of the International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage with the theme “Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare” will publish research that leverages lean Six Sigma in clinical and business processes to confront the challenges…
(SBTI: San Marcos, Texas) -- Sigma Breakthrough Technologies Inc. has announced that the American Council on Education’s college credit recommendation service (ACE CREDIT) has recommended SBTI’s Master Black Belt program for graduate-level college credit.ACE CREDIT has evaluated and…
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, New York, has developed advanced technologies and systems that enable military helicopters (including the VH-71 presidential helicopter) and other military vehicles to successfully perform their missions.LMSIO recently achieved capability maturity…
(Washington: Army News Service) -- The Army has cut the time it takes to rebuild battle-damaged Humvees with a new assembly-line process at Red River Army Depot, Texas.Red River was recently one of 12 Army commands to receive the Shingo Prize Public Sector Award for Excellence in manufacturing…
(BMG: Denver, Colorado) -- Breakthrough Management Group has announced that it has expanded its schedule and portfolio of public training offerings for incremental training and continuing education. The new courses and schedule will be managed through BMG’s public training division, BMG…
(Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc.: Wakefield, Rhode Island) -- Sixty-eight percent of a survey group, including Fortune 400 companies, measured an increase in production throughput, and 47 percent an increase in profit per unit of factory floor space, after applying design for manufacture and assembly (…
(Juran: Southby, Connecticut) -- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) has improved the way senior executives at Masco Builder Cabinet Group view and manage their business. DFSS is a methodology that focuses on designing products or services in a manner than ensures cost-effectiveness and efficiency of…
In a recent blog entry, Michael J. Webb, coauthor with Tom Gorman of Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, says that an important management system for senior executives is one that measures the costs of production. Webb adds that executives must know not just the total cost of production, but…
(North Carolina State University: Raleigh, North Carolina) – the North Carolina State University College of Textiles has teamed with MoreSteam.com to provide Web-based Six Sigma training as a flexible and affordable alternative to traditional classroom training methods. A complete suite of…
PowerSteering, an enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) software used to manage IT, operational excellence, business transformation and other strategic initiatives attracted a record number of customer attendees and strategic partners at its third annual Customer Leadership Conference…