Six Sigma Companies News: Capital One changes reporting structure
Posted by: meikah | 18 October 2009 | 8:50 pm
Here’s another edition of Six Sigma Companies News.
Mid this year, Capital One announced that they were going to launch Six Sigma to drive continuous improvement in their operations. The latest is:
Capital One Financial Corp. has realigned its business reporting structure into three operating segments: credit card, commercial banking and consumer banking, according to a Friday securities filing.
Filed under: Capital One, Finance, Six Sigma, Six Sigma News, Six Sigma Organizations
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 18 October 2009 | 7:53 pm
It’s time again for some link-loving and see what other blogs are saying about Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma and other quality improvement processes.
Power-Transmission Shop blog reminds us what a Green Belt Six Sigma practitioner should do. Green Belts are those employees who are trained to implement Six Sigma projects under the guidance of the Black Belts to achieve the desired goals. Read on…
A Human Resources blog shares a primer on human resource and Six Sigma. HR professionals, who can be involved from the start of the project, play a crucial role in the Six Sigma initiatives at the organizational level will be made. Read on…
The new blog, Lean Mean Process Improvement, talks about the two applications of statistics: descriptive and inferential statistics, and how each can be applied to Lean Six Sigma process improvement. Read on…
Lean Six Sigma Moneybelt blog shares his observation about the differences between project management and Lean Six Sigma. The only important thing to do is ensure that once a project is implemented, that process management and measurement (i.e., control charts and control plans) are implemented to make sure the project continues to function as planned. Read on…
On the Buffalo News, the City and Region section reports that Chris Collins, the county executive of Erie, was not able to deliver his promise of putting order in the bureaucracy. Erie County’s state-appointed control board Friday called Chris Collins’ four-year financial plan unrealistic and gave him until Dec. 31 to better detail how he intends to close a cumulative deficit of some $170 million. Read on…
Filed under: Green Belts, Human Resource, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Processes, Six Sigma
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Innovation of the Week: Fantogramma, an Innovation Tool
Posted by: meikah | 15 October 2009 | 9:13 pm
For this week’s edition of innovation update, let me share with you an interesting innovation tool: Fantogramma, a technique for new fantasy ideas. I believe that innovation starts with fantasizing, and out of which new and fresh ideas come about.
Fantogramma is a powerful thinking tool for producing new science fiction and fantasy ideas in a systematic way. The idea of Fantogramma was originally proposed by the founder of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), Genrich Altshuller, in 1971 as one of the techniques designed for developing and improving personal creative skills and later became a part of the creative imagination development courses within the TRIZ community.1,5
To search for creative solutions to problems, it is important to:
- Relax constraints
- Withdraw from accumulated personal experience
- Get rid of mental associations
- Free the mind from known concepts (as much as possible)
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Xerox Uses Lean Six Sigma to Improve Waste Management
Posted by: meikah | 15 October 2009 | 7:38 pm
An article on Environmental Leader says that Xerox has been helping its customers prevent waste through Lean Six Sigma.
First is Procter & Gamble whose worldwide print operations are handled by Xerox. Xerox helped P&G cut operational costs 20-25 percent by helping control when and how printers, copier and fax machines work.
Second is KeyCorp, a financial services company, that was able to reduce the annual paper output per person by 40 percent, reduce the number of printers, faxes and copiers from 10,000 to 3,500, and in the process save $6 million in operating costs through the help of Xerox and Lean Six Sigma.
You may also want to check out this ebook on Lean Six Sigma advocacy at Xerox.
Filed under: KeyCorp, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Procter & Gamble, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations, Xerox Corporation
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SixSig Reference Feature: Ways to Use ERP to Lean the Manufacturing Supply Chain
Posted by: meikah | 15 October 2009 | 7:16 pm
Toolbox for IT gives us this whitepaper.
Summary:
Learn four tips for lean supply chain improvements in your manufacturing operation, including no-nonsense tips for treating the supply chain holistically enough to drive enterprise improvements that reduce inventory levels while increasing responsiveness. Plus six technology tools within an ERP application that help manufacturing executives implement and automate best practices.
Filed under: Lean, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
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Pittsburgh Glass Works Turns One Year Old and Grateful To Lean/Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 13 October 2009 | 8:04 pm
According to Jim Wiggins, Chairman and CEO, Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC:
“PGW improved its cost structure and enhanced its flexibility to serve customers through a streamlined organization based on Lean value streams, transformation of our manufacturing footprint from nine plants to six, and through aggressive implementation of lean/six sigma throughout operations,” said Wiggins. “Operational performance capabilities have been further enhanced through the rebuild of a float line at Meadville, and investments in our fabrication cold end and bending processes.”
Filed under: Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Processes, Productivity, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations
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Six Sigma for the Church
Posted by: meikah | 13 October 2009 | 7:31 pm
The Adventist New Network shares that Paul Brantley, director of the church’s new Office of Assessment and Program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, wants the church to be the world’s best-run organization.
Brantley is talking about having things in the right places, and church members to have a sense of stewardship and a sense of assessment in order to improve.
“My role is to promote a spirit-filled, evidence-based culture of excellence within the world church that inspires each employee to see the excitement and the potential and the joy of being of a part of the world’s best run organization.”
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 13 October 2009 | 7:07 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by October 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Predicting behavior of averages can be as fascinating as predicting the behavior of animals. Hartford Simsack, the intrepid quality manager for Greer Grate & Gate, sometimes thought of himself as a visitor to the zoo, watching his averages and trying to anticipate what to him was always a complete surprise in the behavior of data. “I never know if this is going to turn out to be a normal distribution or not,†he told his mentor, Dr. Stan Deviation.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Ellen Cone (Lanxess Corp.)
Craig James (FG Wilson)
Lyn Martin (Telstra)
Paul Smith, (Caterpillar Inc.)
Kristen G. van Bergen-Buteau (Littleton Regional Hospital)
Congratulations!
Filed under: PQ Systems eLine, Quality, Quality Quiz
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Minitab Quality Companion 3
Posted by: meikah | 11 October 2009 | 9:19 pm
With Minitab Quality Companion 3, it is “everything you need to manage your Lean Six Sigma and improvement projects in one application.”
Find out more about it HERE.
Filed under: Lean Six Sigma, Minitab, Six Sigma, Software/Technology
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Central Carolina C.C., a Lean Six Sigma Training Center
Posted by: meikah | 11 October 2009 | 8:25 pm
Carolina Newswire reports:
Central Carolina Community College has been selected to offer Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Train the Trainer Certification Training by the North Carolina Community College System and N.C. State University’s College of Textiles.
The NCCCS and the College of Textiles developed a standardized curriculum for the Lean Six Sigma Certification Program and asked Central Carolina C.C. to be the instructional site. It is the only community college in North Carolina that will be offering the Train the Trainer Program.
