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| This month's edition of Fresh Perspectives, New Approaches explores a variety of information and best practice sharing opportunities that can reenergize existing Performance Excellence programs and help new deployments get off to a banner start. |
Group Events that Educate and Inspire
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When Carl Stimson at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBS-MN) started receiving inquiries from other BCBS organizations about Minnesota’s three-year-old Lean Six Sigma program, he quickly realized how Minnesota’s knowledge and experience could benefit others.
“The better we do as members of the association, the more successful we all are,” Stimson believes. “Being able to share what we’ve done, how we did it and see how others did it, will help us all be more competitive.” |
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Stimson, Director of the BCBS-MN Center for Performance Excellence, and Dana Lien, VP of Process and Performance Excellence, called on Breakthrough Management Group to help plan an open house for BCBS association members. Stimson says they initially hoped for 25-30 attendees. However, after several months of marketing the event, registrations totaled 65 attendees – mostly Directors, VPs and managers – from all over the country. Click to continue... |
Sharing Project and Program Success Stories
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Have you ever led a project that’s so exciting, with such tremendous results, that you want to tell everyone about it? Or maybe as a deployment leader you’re looking for ways to highlight your program’s success?
Whether seeking internal or external recognition, case studies are an extremely effective way to spread the good news about your improvement project or program. When you know the right questions to ask and how to assemble the information into an attractive format, you can generate case studies easily and affordably. |
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These days, every company claims to care about process improvement and performance. Case studies are a perfect way to demonstrate how your organization is striving to improve quality, cut costs, streamline operations, produce innovations and the like. Who are you trying to convince? Your customers and stockholders are always interested in what your company is doing to make its products and services better, cheaper and faster. A case study doesn’t just tell them, it shows them what you’re doing by weaving the details into a story. Click to continue...
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Benchmarking: Where Others Have Gone Before
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In studying Six Sigma, one of the first principles students learn is the importance of process metrics. Baseline, entitlement and benchmark are all measurements to consider when attempting to improve a process. The same concepts apply when you attempt to improve your business as a whole.
Benchmarking is one of the best ways to learn from other companies how to tackle specific problems. Benchmarking also allows you to measure your company's performance against others to determine what is possible in the market. From this sharing of information comes an opportunity to better serve your customers and employees.
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The Six Sigma community offers Deployment Leaders, Master Black Belts and other practitioners a variety of ways to benchmark and share information. Click to continue...
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Change Leadership
(Denver, CO) Oct. 22
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
(Atlanta, GA) Nov. 5
Transactional Toolmaster
(Atlanta, GA) Nov. 5
Transactional DFSS
(Denver, CO) Nov. 12
(London, UK) Dec. 3
Transactional Lean
(London, UK) Nov. 26
World Congress
Leadership Summit
Providing a Global Information Sharing Opportunity for Health Care Professionals
Oct. 24-26 - Chicago, IL
AICPA Controllers
Workshop Conference
Nov. 8 - Orlando, FL
Executive Seminar
in Health Care
Nov. 6 - Tampa, FL
Nov. 6 - Birmingham, UK
Nov. 7 - Miami, FL
Nov. 8 - London, UK
DFSS Executive Seminar
for Auto Industry
Nov. 8 - Detroit, MI |
