This book, written in an easy-to-access novel format, provides practitioners and managers with:
- A next-generation system for enhancing digital transformation efforts in an organization
- An enhanced and more beneficial than a traditional approach for implementing Business Process Management (BPM)
- A business process improvement system that goes beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
- A free software app for response-metric tracking that provides insight not possible with traditional metric reporting techniques
- A methodology for Lean Six Sigma improvement project selection so that the big-picture will benefit from the project′s completion
- A clickable Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process-improvement roadmap integrates the application of Lean and Six Sigma tools so that the right tool is used at the right time when undertaking process improvement efforts
- A methodology to statistically show and quantify at the 30,000-foot-level the benefit from process improvement efforts
This book provides direction on how organizations can resolve issues that commonly occur with:
- Traditional control charts and process capability reporting techniques
- AQL testing and reporting
- Lean Six Sigma deployments
This book provides direction in how organizations can benefit from the wise application of:
- Statistical and non-statistical techniques.
- Design of Experiments (DOE) in both manufacturing and transactional processes.
In this book, Jorge and his golfing MBA buddies discover a no-nonsense methodology that minimizes the risk of organizations' doing bad things. The described method provides direction for establishments to achieve the 3Rs of business; that is, everyone doing the Right things and doing them Right at the Right time.
This novel describes the application of Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE). The IEE system offers much flexibility, including a means for effectively managing an organization remotely. The book describes how Jorge implemented IEE in his Harris Hospital and how his golfing MBA friends applied and benefited from the methodology in their manufacturing and transactional organizations.
IEE provides a comprehensive 9-step system that CEOs, presidents, general managers, executives, managers, leaders, practitioners, and others can use to resolve elephant-in-the-room management issues such as:
- Business goals not being met
- Scorecards leading to harmful, if not destructive, behaviors
- Persistent day-to-day firefighting problems
- Business strategies that are very generic and difficult to translate to organizational work environments
- Lean events and other improvement projects can consume many resources but often do not offer a quantifiable benefit to the whole business.
- Lean Six Sigma process improvement deployments that have improvement projects, which are either not completed in a timely fashion or which make substantial financial claims that are questionable
This book offers an easy-to-understand book-character dialog on implementing Deming's management philosophy and delivering a system for managing the needs of ISO 9000, Baldrige award criteria, and Shingo Prize criteria all at one time through the IEE business management system.
In the book's storyline:
Janice Davis, CEO of Harris Hospital, sees many benefits from the IEE system in her organization. She likes how IEE structurally integrates predictive scorecards with the processes that created them. Janice also likes how IEE provides analytically-determined direction for undertaking process improvement efforts, which improve organizational predictive-reported performance metrics that benefit the organization's overall financials.
While working at IBM, Forrest Breyfogle III (there is a Forrest V) took a Design of Experiments (DOE) workshop in 1975 that changed his life. From this DOE training, Forrest became excited about the benefits of wisely applied statistical techniques. In the early 1980s, Forrest transitioned to being a full-time internal IBM statistical consultant, a position that he held for ten years until retiring from the company in 1992. Perhaps it was his formal engineering training that brought Forrest to the conclusion that he viewed things differently from traditional process improvement practitioners and management. Forrest believed he offered an enhanced approach for addressing many operational situations; hence, after retiring from IBM, he named the company that he founded in 1992 Smarter Solutions. In the mid-1990s, Forrest, under contract for the company that had introduced Six Sigma in GE, conducted his first Black Belt process improvement training in Toronto and Northern Ireland. Forrest's book, Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods, was later published in 1999 by Wiley and is arguably the first technical book on Six Sigma. The second edition of this book won ASQ's Crosby Medal in 2004. Smarter Solutions, Inc. helped many organizations and practitioners apply Lean Six Sigma concepts; however, Forrest observed problems with traditional Lean Six Sigma implementations and practices. Forrest also saw issues with how practitioners and management created and reported metrics and how they undertook process improvement efforts. Over the years, Forrest documented problems that he observed and what to do differently, using his developed 9-step Integrated Enterprise Excellence business management system. Forrest did not believe he was adequately conveying his message both about the problems that he had observed with traditional process improvement and business management practices and what to do differently. Forrest thought that there was a need for a better vehicle to share what he had seen over the years and what organizations and individuals could do to make things better. Because of this belief, Forrest wrote the book, Management 2.0: Discovery of Integrated Enterprise Excellence and its follow-up, Leadership System 2.0: Implementing Integrated Enterprise Excellence. In this two-book-novel series, the dialog among several book characters shares what Forrest has observed over the years about what to do differently to address these problems. Forrest decided to invest money to develop a standalone software app that these books would provide free so that individuals and organizations could benefit from the powerful 30,000-foot-level reporting techniques described in the books. He also invested monies to create the software to implement the entire IEE system behind an organization's firewall. With this implementation, organizations can have automatically updated 30,000-foot-level report-outs that often provide a prediction statement, where, if a prediction statement is not desirable, the underlying process needs enhancement. Since people do not often have the time to read books, Forrest also decided to offer the two books, Management 2.0 and Leadership System 2.0, as audiobooks in addition to a paperback and e-book format. Forrest has a MS degree in engineering from the University of Texas. He is an ASQ Fellow and CEO of Smarter Solutions (www.smartersolutions.com). He has authored over a dozen books. Forrest was named Quality Professional of the Year for 2011 by Quality Magazine and in 2012 was awarded alumni of the year by Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received the 2013 Lean & Six Sigma World Conference Leadership Award.
