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(University at Buffalo: Amherst, NY) -- Through the Center for Industrial Effectiveness, the University at Buffalo (UB) provides public training for lean Six Sigma. The fall course, Green Belt Blended Format—Wave 10, offers a unique way to become a lean Six Sigma Green Belt that can take place…
(Professional Business Solutions: O’Fallon, MO) -- Professional Business Solutions Inc. (PBSI), a provider of technical assistance and training programs for forensic laboratory professionals worldwide, has released its 2010 edition of the combined Forensic Laboratory Lean Six Sigma Training and…
(Bluespring: Cincinnati) -- Bluespring Software, a leading provider of business process innovation (BPI) technology and solutions, has announced that it will expand its Rapid Process Assessment (RPA) service. Bluespring RPA provides organizations with quantitative data to make informed decisions…
What is kansei engineering? Editors Mitsuo Nagamachi and Anitawati Mohd Lokman and publisher CRC Press present two books that explore kansei engineering: Innovations of Kansei Engineering defines in detail what kansei is and its role in developing products based on the customer’s feelings, wants,…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, has introduced its Master Black Belt (MBB) Fall Webcast Series, to occur in October and November. This series of three, free one-hour lectures by…
(PowerSteering Software: Cambridge, MA) -- PowerSteering Inc., developer of PowerSteering Software, an on-demand project and portfolio management (PPM) solution for managing lean Six Sigma, IT, and product development, will host a free webcast on Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 11:30 a.m. (EDT). The webcast…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Far from the Factory: Lean for the Information Age (CRC Press, 2010) delivers the tools and techniques needed to adapt lean manufacturing concepts of waste, value, and continuous flow to the technology-rich, service-oriented office. Today most of the work-to-be-done…
(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- The University at Buffalo has announced two new courses, the Certified Change Management Professional program, and the Blue Belt Lean Certification program.
Change management
In today’s ever-evolving business environment, leading and adapting to change is…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The demand for sustainability is growing stronger every day, and manufacturers are looking for ways to comply in order to reduce their impact on the environment and increase profitability.
Many are discovering that lean practices—which seek to eliminate all forms of waste…
(ACTLean: Lawrenceville, GA) -- ACTLean will offer a two-day workshop discussing lean innovation topics in Atlanta, on Nov. 4–5. The goal of the seminar is to teach practical approaches of lean management thinking for innovation and development departments, and the successful implementation of…
(Simpler Consulting LP: Pittsburgh) -- Simpler Consulting LP, a global management consulting firm that helps companies improve processes to stimulate business-affecting results, has launched the Simpler Design System (SDS), a new service that assists organizations with the product development…
(PowerSteering Software: Cambridge, MA) -- PowerSteering Software, a provider of on-demand project and portfolio management (PPM) solutions, will lead an executive forum titled “Applying Lean Six Sigma to Lean Six Sigma” at the IQPC Process Excellence Leaders Meeting in Chicago on Sept. 14–15…
Since 2007, Cape Coral, Florida, has adopted a mission to eliminate waste in all processes and operate in a more effective and efficient manner. Since then, the city has achieved more than $2 million in cost savings and performed 18 kaizen events to reduce costs and increase productivity without…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- Fueled by the rising demand to streamline key processes, business process management (BPM) has become a central requirement in planning, implementing change, and evaluating performance in organizations. In fact, the number of large companies (those with more…
(Accelper Consulting: Schaumburg, IL) -- Praveen Gupta, adjunct industry professor for business innovation and co-chair for the Business Innovation Conference 2010, announces that registration is open for attendees. The conference, now in its third year, is being held at the Illinois Institute of…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, the global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, reports a quadrupling of enrollments for its lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt certification programs. Since June, MoreSteam has witnessed…
(Enterprise Minnesota: Minneapolis) -- Minnesota’s manufacturers are looking for every available advantage these days and now have another resource: Enterprise Minnesota has launched a Lean Product Development service to help companies quickly reduce time-to-market, develop better products more…
(Kent State University, Stark: North Canton, OH) -- Kent State University, Stark campus, will offer lean Six Sigma Black Belt training and certification programs this fall.
Lean Six Sigma is a business methodology that teaches organizations a new way to think about what is done every day. The…
(Rucker & Associates: Raleigh, NC) -- Health care experts got a dose of lean Six Sigma principles when Rucker & Associates presented its best industry practices to ISH Inc. to help the company better understand the power of lean Six Sigma for efficiency and productivity.
Florida-based…
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) has announced a CEO succession plan in which James P. Womack, Ph.D., founder, chairman, and CEO, will step down on Sept. 27. Womack, who led the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team that coined the term “…
(Business901: San Diego) -- The Customer Identification Program has been released by Six Sigma Marketing Institute and can be found at http://DrivingMarketShare.com. The Customer Identification Program identifies specific products and/or markets that offer an organization its best options for…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Encouraging a long overdue shift in thinking, Lean Human Resources: Redesigning HR Processes for a Culture of Continuous Improvement gives managers and executives the means to maximize employee potential by first showing them how to increase the improvement power of…
Saving money, increasing profits, and dramatically boosting productivity using lean Six Sigma was the privilege of big corporations that could afford lengthy educational programs, loaded with statistics and lead by expensive consultants. But there is another way.
While managing directors and…
(Henry Ford Health System: Detroit) -- The next Henry Ford Production System On-Site LEAN Training sessions for health care take place Sept. 16–17 at the Gilmour Education Center of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
The two-day course is a didactic and hands-on introduction to lean…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- An information technology (IT) organization is expected to “align with the business.” That is, IT is supposed to enable business performance and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, take advantage of emerging technologies, and maintain quality and…
