Innovation of the Week: Sitemasher’s Platforms
Posted by: meikah | 27 June 2008 | 2:06 am
Sitemasher, a Vancouver-based start-up company received the inaugural Blue Sky Award, which recognizes leading innovation developed on the Microsoft-based platform.
Mediacaster Magazine reports:
Established in 2007, Sitemasher is a SaaS-based platform for building, managing, and optimizing sophisticated websites.
Phil Calvin, chief technical officer, began developing Sitemasher in 2005. He was intent on transcending traditional website building platforms and Web content management system (CMS) solutions by providing an integrated, search-engine friendly platform to address the entire website lifecycle.
Filed under: General, Software/Technology, Innovation Update, Internet, IT
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IT Data for Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 7 May 2008 | 10:48 pm
Dealing with data is part and parcel of any operation. But how to treat the data in your hands is another question. That is the usual dilemma that CIOs and senior IT team leaders face.
What’s ironic even, is that CIOs and senior IT team leaders often find themselves handling a lot of data, yet they seldom treat these information as something that can help them optimize their organizations effectively. That is because they don’t have the tools that help them sift through and find the relevant data. This is where Six Sigma comes in.
Thus, in the recent Six Sigma in IT conference, this question was asked: “What should we be measuring for our IT organization?”
To know the answers, read IT Measures That Matter.
Source:
Information Week
*Photo from Stock.Xchng
Filed under: Software/Technology, Data, Data Analysis, Six Sigma, IT, Data Quality, Metrics
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 28 March 2008 | 1:49 am
It’s time again to go ’round the blogosphere and read about Six Sigma and other quality management methodologies.
Learn from the following links and leave your message below. 
Buffalolog, Six Sigma Too “Dilbert” For The Buffalo News - this is another reaction to my earlier post on slowing down on Six Sigma.
Planview, Notes from ITIL Foundation Training - IT management, like any other field, definitely needs a good management system. ITIL is one approach to IT management, and in the post, Terry Doerscher shares his insights while on training for ITIL foundation-level certification. Six Sigma or not, I agree with Terry when he says that there should be mechanisms for assessment, optimization, and management of IT services.
Bloggeron, is Following a Systematic Approach to Six Sigma Project Implementations - Tony Jacowski offers a good review for Six Sigma practitioners who’ve been doing it through the years.
Statistical Thinking to Improve Quality, Resin Example of Hoerl-Snee Strategy (Part B) - Yes, the improvement process is iterative: gather data, identify special cause, gather more data, notice differences, and then conduct brainstorming session. The process may use Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) or DMAIC steps.
The Sixth Sigma, Kaizen Plan - Kaizen is creating noise these days. Go Kaizen? Yeah, why not. I like the organization part of it. Any strategy that calls for a never-ending contonuous improvement is always a good thing.
Filed under: Lean Six Sigma, Deployment, DMAIC, Kaizen, Six Sigma, IT, ITIL
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Using Six Sigma for Employee Promotion
Posted by: meikah | 17 December 2007 | 12:03 am
I have written quite a number of posts about the use of Six Sigma in human resource. Some of the posts touched on fast-tracking recruitment process, others on providing training for employees. Not one touched on promotion.
If Six Sigma can improve recruitment and training processes, I believe it can also be used for evaluating employees for leveling up.
Cummins is actually doing it. An article on Information Week narrates how the company will be using Six Sigma to determine of IT employees can be managers.
CIO Gail Farnsley shares how she will apply process improvement method, particularly Six Sigma, to identify and develop the manufacturer’s IT management talent. Right now, she’s looking into the following:
- starting with the VOC survey, asking business-unit heads about the strengths and weaknesses of the IT division
- ranking and prioritizing the qualities of a future IT leader
- looking into IT management candidates’ experience in non-IT roles
- tracking how many of them actually make it to leadership positions
Read more…Source:
InformationWeek.com, a Six Sigma Zone featured link
*Photo from MorgueFile
