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(ISSISSIPPI: Columbus, OH) -- The International Six Sigma Institute and Secret Society for Imperious Professionals of Process Improvement (ISSISSIPPI) has announced a free online big data analytical tool.
As CEOs everywhere have become enamored with all things big data, ISSISSIPPI recognized the…
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has announced that three U.S. organizations will receive the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership. All of this year's winners are…
(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Are you passionate about quality? Do you want to lead tens of thousands of like-minded quality individuals? Then this job is for you.
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is looking for a new CEO. According the job posting on ASQ's site:
"The next CEO will lead and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- As most of you have likely heard, the federal government is shutting down due to a lapse in funding. While this will undoubtedly create hardship for many who work for and/or rely on services from the government, I am happy to inform you that the Baldrige Program will…
(CRC Press) -- Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology today officially unveiled HexagonMetrologyU, the first e-learning portal designed to engage and support the metrology industry. The interactive platform debuts over 30 online courses covering metrology fundamentals, basic and intermediate…
(The Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- For 50 years, the go-to method of improving call center performance has been monitoring and coaching. Yet measures of performance like disclosure compliance, call resolution, cross/upsell rates, and handle time are not continuously improving and in fact have…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Letitia Baldrige, sister of Malcolm Baldrige, died Mon., October 29, 2012, at the age of 86. In announcing her passing, her son Malcolm Hollensteiner told the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., that “she loved the board and took such pride…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Smarter Solutions has come out with a new blended learning, lean Six Sigma training method that overcomes the issues with online and nontraditional training. The method allows self-paced training for individuals, or groups to take the course as a team, but…
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- On Wed., June 20, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, will sponsor the Houston Lean Six Sigma Professionals (HLSSP) first roundtable discussion event at the Westin Oaks in Houston, Texas from 5:30–7 p…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Design for Six Sigma in Product and Service Development: Applications and Case Studies (CRC Press, 2012), written by chapter authors, is edited by Elizabeth Cudney, Ph.D., and Sandra L. Furterer, Ph.D.
The book discusses how DFSS is linked to organizational…
(IMEC: Peoria, IL) -- The Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center (IMEC) is launching a lean Six Sigma Green Belt training series beginning on June 8, 2012, in southern Illinois. The series is designed to help small and midsized manufacturers learn how to integrate concepts of lean and Six Sigma to…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- The Juran Healthcare team had two improvement project presentations accepted for the WCBF 11th Annual Lean, Six Sigma, and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, which took place in New Orleans, May 15–18, 2012. The project presentations were an example of the…
(Gemba Academy: Morro Bay, CA) -- Gemba Academy, a provider of online lean manufacturing and lean enterprise training, announces a no-cost webinar on May 23, 2012, at 1 p.m. CDT, presented by Bob Emiliani, titled “The Leader’s Role in Lean Success.”
Emiliani will present two examples of companies…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new book from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, was created to reflect the most current thinking among key Six Sigma leaders regarding what should be contained in the ASQ Master Black Belt Body of Knowledge. For quick…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- If you want to make your organization or team more productive, you have to change the way it thinks. Lean Six Sigma is a winning technique improve performance, but the jargon-packed language and theory of lean Six Sigma can be intimidating for both beginners and experienced…
(Zontec: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc., the international developer and marketer of statistical process control (SPC) software solutions, has announced an update to Synergy 100 for its customers worldwide.
“The Synergy 100 is designed for the single-user environment,” says Zontec’s president Warren…
(Gemba Academy: Mukilteo, WA) -- In the upcoming webinar, “Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions,” Mark Graban, author of the Shingo Prize-winning book, Lean Hospitals, will show how simple statistical process control (SPC) methods can be used by managers and leaders to make better…
(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab, a leading provider of software for quality improvement, is offering at no cost, an online preview training session on value-stream mapping, a technique used to analyze the flow of information and materials needed to bring products to customers.
The hour-…
(Avery Point Group: Alpharetta, GA) -- As the economy continues to heal, post-recession demand for continuous improvement talent persists strongly, according to the latest study of almost 7,100 recent Internet job postings reviewed by The Avery Point Group.
The executive search firm’s eighth…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- The Worldwide Conventions and Business Forums (WCBF), an independent organization headquartered in Chicago that researches and produces high-quality, senior-level lean, Six Sigma, and process excellence events, has a predominant mission for 2012. Its mission is to save as many…
Allow me to come straight to the point. I am providing a limited number of full and partial scholarships for the MindPro Lean Six Sigma Online Training and Certification Program. The scholarships are being provided as a part of my working philanthropy initiative, which has now been extended due to…
(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- No matter what your knowledge of lean Six Sigma, come join author Thomas Pyzdek and Master Black Belts Peter Bersbach and Larry Dyer in a one-hour lively discussion on “11 Ways to Sink Your Six Sigma Project,” at 11 a.m. EST on Feb. 1, 2012. This event is at no…
(Oriel STAT A MATRIX: Edison, NJ) -- Tailored to Green Belts who want to become Black Belts, Oriel STAT A MATRIX’s Six Sigma Green Belt Upgrade to Black Belt Certification builds on your existing Six Sigma skills so you can lead your team to operational excellence and improve your professional…
(The Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- The Pyzdek Institute is making its entire lean Six Sigma training site available via low-cost monthly and yearly subscriptions. Included with the subscriptions are all 70+ modules, with reading assignments, storyboards, video lessons, online interactive…