“We achieved phenomenal results leading to an extremely efficient organization. The time required to process commissions with accurate results was reduced by more than 50% with the new process implemented. The capacity gained eliminated the need for additional resources to accommodate Cisco's growing sales force and transaction volume.” JuneAn Lanigan Director (former) Cisco Systems
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Once you have your current state model, what do you do with it? How do you share it with the Process Owner and Executive Sponsor and spark their interest? My experience is that executives looking at a model that is 30 to 60 steps long are impressed and say something like, “Wow, that process is […]
Part 1 of this blog talked about the purpose and set up for this 4 day Kaizen with an Environmental Healthy & Safety group. Part 2, the final section follows.
In the first 2 days, we documented five process diagrams (for each of the permits – we found a 5th one!), identified the wastes […]
Analytical data is a name I use for any data that helps to analyze the current process. It is quantitative data for any step, gateway, or sub process; it is data about inputs from internal and external suppliers, including the customer; it is data about time, waiting, and queuing; it is quantitative values to clarify […]
If there were only one analytical technique the business process improvement (BPI) team could use, it should be quantitative data—and then I would expand quantitative data to include baseline data, customer data, and analytical data.
Baseline data is data that provides quantitative values to the measures for each of the two or three BPI improvement […]
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