Winning consecutive championships may be one of the hardest feats to achieve in sports, but fortunately Process Excellence leaders can guarantee repeated victory with project replication: the process of taking successful projects and duplicating the results in other locations or business areas.
In this insightful webcast, PowerSteering's Randy Clark - Black Belt, Director of Six Sigma, and someone who knows a thing or two about football - will share valuable tips to help you:
Repeat the plays proven to yield financial touchdowns
Staples has more than 2,200 stores, 90,000+ employees, and 7,500 products to manage in each location plus a copy, print, shipping, and tech center to look after. And they make it look easy! In this complimentary webcast, Cathy Wisniewski, Process Excellence Manager at Staples, reveals how the $24.5B office supply giant successfully made Process Excellence a cornerstone of its competitive differentiation.
More and more, organizations are coming to recognize that PMOs and project & portfolio management (PPM) practices must shift beyond a tactical project execution focus to generate the greatest impact. In this insightful webcast, guest speaker Margo Visitacion of Forrester Research, Inc. joined PowerSteering Software’s Susan Go to explore best practices for creating a PMO that delivers against your company’s key business objectives.
Feel free to skip this webcast if your project portfolio processes are completely aligned with corporate strategy, delivering results your CFO would sign off on, and enjoying complete management support & cultural adoption. But if this doesn’t reflect your PMO/PPM reality, view this insightful session to learn how to create a top-down framework to establish portfolio management objectives, measure progress against those objectives and respond to the inevitable shifts in budget, priority and strategy.
OSF Saint Francis is the fourth largest medical center in Illinois. In this insightful webcast, OSF's Lisa Fuller, Director of Six Sigma, and Phillip Baer, Master Black Belt, reveal how their organization has successfully implemented change management throughout the healthcare system. View the recording to learn how the hospital has made dramatic performance improvements in patient care, medication safety, infection reduction and capacity management by leveraging complementary methodologies, including Lean, DMAIC, and "Rapid Improvement."
It's not surprising that an effective change management approach is an important predictor of long-term PPM & PMO success. Yet too many organizations shortchange the process, underestimate cultural resistance and settle for PPM software that is unable to support their business goals. Please join Jay Hoskins, PowerSteering Business PPM Consultant, for a discussion about how to achieve sustained change, ensure executive support and avoid internal politics that can impede success.
PolyOne, a $2 billion global provider of polymer materials, didn’t introduce Lean Six Sigma quietly in 2008. They opted for an explosive, “big bang” launch and were recognized less than 2 years later with a Process Excellence award for best start-up program. Please join Brett Warland, PolyOne’s Global Director of Process Excellence, as he describes how Lean Six Sigma was the catalyst for a remarkable turnaround strategy.
Molex is a $3B organization that manufactures over 100,000 electronic products across 39 locations in 16 countries. It doesn’t get much more global than that! In this webcast Mike Higgins, Global Lean Six Sigma Manager at Molex, provides a peek into a worldwide initiative to reduce waste, eliminate process variation and develop a stronger customer bond. He describes how continuous improvement is focused on the areas that impact customers, reduce costs and increase revenue.
Part of the UK’s National Health Service, NHS Lincolnshire is responsible for facilitating healthcare access for a population of over 730,000 people. In this insightful session, Gary James, Director of Informatics at The NHS Lincolnshire, discusses how his organisation established a Programme Management Office (PMO) to manage the business change required to maintain – and even improve – the quality of healthcare delivery while simultaneously cutting costs.
Mobile Mini, Inc. is the world's leading provider of portable storage solutions. In their industry, purchase factors like customer service, delivery availability, and the fleet condition represent fertile ground for Lean. But unlike many companies who mandate change from the top, Mobile Mini’s “change agents” actively surface Lean ideas at the branch level. Please join Deployment Leader Bill Armstead as he describes how Mobile Mini originates change locally and replicates it globally.
Listen as special guest Tim DeGennaro, analyst at Forrester Research, and PowerSteering’s Craig Jackson, a Principal Consultant with more than 10 years of PPM deployment experience, explore common PPM implementation challenges and reveal proven strategies for circumventing them. Whether your organization is still considering software, in the midst of a deployment, or a mature long-time user, you will walk away with practical, actionable recommendations for achieving greater financial return from your project portfolio processes.
Join us for a discussion that introduces proven techniques to help you maximize Lean Six Sigma value. We’re pleased to bring together Bob Crescenzi, who helped NewPage Corp win the prestigious Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Start-up Program award from iSixSigma, and Jim Pearson, named the Six Sigma VP Leader of the Year by WCBF. Hear how these seasoned experts successfully maintained executive commitment, applied structured problem solving techniques, engaged the organization and more.
In this insightful webcast, PowerSteering's Jay Hoskins will present an alternative framework: the PPM Capability Model. It recognizes that the umbrella of PPM actually covers many distinct processes, and that within any organization different maturity levels may be optimal for each. Focusing on a "crawl-walk-run" approach, it emphasizes the top-down processes of Governance and Demand Management to deliver a practical action plan for realizing immediate business value.
Despite robust design processes and significant investments in PLM technology, many R&D organizations experience headaches when it comes to aligning products with strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation, and prioritizing potential investments. Fortunately, the analyst is in! Roy Wildeman, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, and Susan Go, Solution Consultant at PowerSteering Software, will discuss how project portfolio management improves the visibility & governance of product lifecycle processes.
If you're an executive responsible for integrating Lean Six Sigma into the culture of your organization, you'll want to attend this discussion by James Pearson, former Vice President of Lean Six Sigma at EMC. Discover how EMC's thoughtful consideration of the cultural, analytical and financial requirements helped ensure a successful deployment of Lean Six Sigma and its program management system PowerSteering Software, while helping earn James the distinction of VP Six Sigma Leader of the year.
Mercy Medical Center is the longest continually operating hospital and one of the largest employers in Iowa. With more than 6,900 employees, physicians and allied health professionals, there was great potential for Lean Six Sigma. Please join Derek Novak, as he shares Mercy's Lean Journey in the Pharmacy Division chronicling organizational successes, challenges and lessons learned along the way.
PowerSteering Founder David Boghossian and Federal Solution Consultant Jay Hoskins will discuss the best way to create repeatable stimulus governance processes through automation. Get practical strategies to help you select the right projects, drive economic benefits, and easily meet the Section 1512 reporting requirements.
Are you under constant pressure to demonstrate tangible results from your organization's use of Lean Six Sigma? If so, you can benefit from an approach we call "Applying Six Sigma to Six Sigma." It involves incorporating the same rigor, analysis and measurement focus of Six Sigma to your Six Sigma program itself, to identify ways to continuously improve results. Please join PowerSteering Black Belt and Director of Six Sigma Randy Clark for this pragmatic discussion about how to drive sustainable Six Sigma value.
PowerSteering Founder David Boghossian and Senior Solution Architect Jay Hoskins describe how the discipline of portfolio management can greatly improve the value realized from new products by improving speed to market,eliminating failed launches, and striking the right balance between innovation and enhancement.
Robert J. Crescenzi, Vice President of Lean Six Sigma for NewPage Corporation, recent winner of the Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Start-Up by iSixSigma! Live Summit & Awards, is featured in this presentation. Listen as Bob reveals the specific ingredients that contribute to NewPage's proven recipe for Lean Six Sigma success.
The goal of PPM is to achieve better corporate performance through a portfolio that's aligned with the strategic objectives of the organization. But with all the variables involved how do you accurately measure the impact? Listen as Susan Go, PowerSteering PPM Solutions Architect, reveals the metrics that matter most in improving portfolio value.
PowerSteering and Dan Miklovic of Gartner demonstrate how world class lean organizations have internalized Lean Six Sigma into the IT function, and reveal why LSS and IT are so compatible, complementary, and customer-focused.
Find out what factors contribute to PPM failure and learn how to overcome them. PowerSteering and Forrester provide fresh insights, compelling research and practical recommendations to ensure PPM effectiveness.
Listen as Merck, the third largest US drug maker, discusses its successful Merck Sigma program during this enlightening presentation. Recently spotlighted in iSixSigma Magazine, Merck Sigma transcends the organization and is utilized in sales, marketing, R&D, manufacturing, HR, and IT.
Hear how Ingersoll Rand leverages PowerSteering Software to extend the benefits of project & portfolio management beyond IT. They've successfully incorporated a “top-down” approach to improve business results, rationalize initiatives and gain portfolio visibility in HR, Shared Services, and Lean Six Sigma.
Learn how Brunswick has effectively applied Lean Six Sigma to boating, bicycling, billiards, bowling, and more, including: Successful Integration of Lean & Six Sigma; Effective Waste-Free Manufacturing Processes; Extending Six Sigma into IT; Best Practice Project Management Across the Company.
If you’re under constant pressure to deliver measurable and sustainable results from your Six Sigma and quality initiatives, you need to focus your team on the highest value activities. View this webcast to learn 5 ways to achieve a better financial return from your deployment.
Considering that Pitney Bowes helps companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes while reducing their environmental impact, it should come as no surprise that they are strong advocates of Six Sigma. View this webcast to hear Dan Brakewood, Director of Quality at Pitney Bowes, describe how Six Sigma thrives within his organization.
No longer relegated to cost savings or process improvements, Lean Six Sigma is becoming a catalyst for innovation within and across public and private organizations. Learn how Lean Six Sigma has helped many IBM and PowerSteering customers identify innovation opportunities and embed a culture of innovation throughout the enterprise.
Industry pioneers Six Sigma Academy and PowerSteering Software teamed up to present an innovative Six Sigma model. Find out why "old school" deployment approaches might not be the right answer for everybody. We'll introduce you to Strategic Process Management, the 21st century alternative that aligns strategy to process to execution to deliver more results, with fewer resources in less time.
Strategic partners PowerSteering Software and Breakthrough Management Group (BMG) have combined their years of real-world experience to help companies accelerate ROI at the most critical points in their Six Sigma deployments. Learn how integrating Deployment Management Software with world-class eLearning can improve Belt productivity and increase Six Sigma program effectiveness.
Operational Excellence has been an enterprise-wide priority for Tyco since 2003, when the program received the mandate to deliver an astounding billion dollars in cost savings. Listen as Ajoy Basu and Rob Vreeland, Six Sigma Deployment Champions at Tyco, describe how more than 5,000 Deployment Leaders, Champions, Belts, and Finance Reps across more than 35 countries have coalesced around a single, colossal goal.
Studies suggest that the average company leaves 30-50% of its potential value on the table due to an inability to execute on its strategy. Learn how linking scorecards to underlying initiatives empowers organizations to truly drive strategy and accelerate results across the enterprise. Presented by David Boghossian, Founder of PowerSteering Software, and Michael Contrada, founding member of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and SVP at Palladium Group.
If you thought that Six Sigma project tracking software only benefited Black Belts, think again! With the right software, your entire deployment team -- including executive management, deployment leaders, finance members, and belts -- will derive value and actively contribute to the success of your program.
UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 25 company, is forging new ground in the application of Six Sigma within health care - an industry that affects almost every person in America. Listen as Adam Hjerpe, Senior Director of Just Right Service at UnitedHealth, discusses how Six Sigma has allowed his organization to cut costs while also supporting the company's broader mission of improving the health care delivery system.
Find out how to inspire your organization to drive new thinking, improve efficiency and increase the bottom line. Learn how you can stimulate, aggregate, evaluate and activate new Six Sigma project ideas.
Hear how Brunswick aligns Lean Six Sigma projects against corporate priorities and provides team leaders with insight to accelerate program success and manage risk. Presented by Dandy Martin, Corporate Director of Lean Six Sigma at Brunswick and David Boghossian, PowerSteering Software Founder.
