NYISO Enhances Website Response Time Through Lean Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 23 July 2008 | 9:48 pm
The response time of New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) website has improved a lot. Users are now able to enter and navigate the site much faster and more easily.
The NYISO’s website is important to a lot of people, especially those involved in and affected by news and policies in the transmission and generation, and other power supply industry. The site contains news and information about the bulk electricity grid and wholesale electricity markets in New York State.
The team of NYISO employees tasked with improving website response time attribute their success to Lean Six Sigma. In doing so, here are what they have accomplished:
- reduced the site’s average page download time from 17.3 to 3.3 seconds
- improved the downloading the site’s home page more than 1200 percent - from 18 to 1.3 seconds
- reduced the number of templates, combining computer script and compressing graphics, so that dozens of nyiso.com portals were accelerated
I can say that NYISO has the good sense to think of their users. Other websites don’t seem to care at all!
Source:
iSixSigma News
Filed under: Benefits and Savings, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations, Software/Technology, Internet, NYISO
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Innovation of the Week: MySQL’s Collaborative Community
Posted by: meikah | 11 July 2008 | 12:02 am
As the World Wide Web grows, most of the information that you would want to find or that you need has become available and free.
The concept of collaborative community is the principle behind MySQL, touted as the world’s most popular database. The company has been committed to “open-source” innovation since its founding in 1995.
In a recent interview, MYSQL chief Marten Mickos shares his ideas about why MySQL’s Internet-age version of a barn raising produces superior innovation and what motivates all those developers.
He spoke with Josh Hyatt, contributing editor of MIT Sloan Management Review, for the Business Insight Journal Report.
BUSINESS INSIGHT: What would cause a company like MySQL to make the radical move of open sourcing its product? Does a business just have to be born with that tendency toward transparency?
MR. MICKOS: Interestingly, the whole company was started by the founders writing the product code themselves. They were thinking of a closed-source product. Then one of the founders saw a presentation about open source and convinced the others that this was the way the world was going to go. That was in the first year, 1995.
Filed under: Software/Technology, Team Dynamics, Innovation Update, Innovation, MySQL
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Visual Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 2 July 2008 | 9:58 pm
The name itself intrigues me. Here’s what it is:
Using JMP for Visual Six Sigma, you can literally “see” the important patterns of variation that have occurred, no matter how many Xs and Ys you have. You can then use interactive, exploratory data mining and other techniques to suggest the “hot” Xs that are really driving your Ys, perhaps identifying better operating conditions for your process from the data you already have.
JMP’s comprehensive statistics and interactivity make it the statistical software of choice for consultants and companies using Six Sigma. JMP supports the DMAIC process with software usable for Green Belts through Master Black Belts. Coupled with other SAS solutions for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, JMP gives C-level executives and Six Sigma Champions a total environment for identifying, implementing and sustaining quality improvements.
Have you heard of the visual Six Sigma? Or Have you tried this one out? Do share your experience here.
Filed under: Software/Technology, Six Sigma References, Six Sigma
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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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Lean Six Sigma: A Catalyst for Change
Posted by: meikah | 23 May 2008 | 3:44 am
Change is good. But sometimes people refuse it because they’ve become complacent. Complacency though is the beginning of downfall.
Anything that means improvement also means change. Yet, for any business to grow, it must embrace change. One catalyst for change is Lean Six Sigma.
An article on iSixSigma discusses how Lean Six Sigma can serve as a change management tool:
Lean Six Sigma drives change in an organization. It inspires people to look at their processes differently through the data-savvy lens of waste awareness and to discover, characterize and control their processes. In so doing, this behavior drives process improvements, which often require changes to be communicated, deployed and managed.
But Lean Six Sigma also is, in and of itself, a change management tool that will facilitate the changes that it requires, as well as those of other change initiatives in an organization. As such, even the deployment of Six Sigma enables, rather than impedes, simultaneous change initiatives.
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