BMGI Articles

As the Chief Innovation Officer for global training and consultancy firm BMGI, Dr Phil Samuel is a thought leader in performance improvement methodology studies including Six Sigma, Lean, Design for Six Sigma, innovation and change leadership.

Last week onesixsigma.com published a review of a 5-day innovation workshop. Here we speak to one of the attendees, Bernd Weber, director of Lean Six Sigma at Qimonda, about the course and Innovation in general.

As change management evolves, there is increasing evidence that world-class companies view improvement and innovation as mutually-supportive techniques for business development. It would seem to be wholly logical that a skillset which improves processes can also be applied to creating them, and vice versa.

Debra Shultz Robinson is Manager of Corporate Quality Programs and Development at FPL Group in the US, who began their quality improvement initiative in the early 1980s. Here she talks about the programme and particularly their use of Hoshin Planning.

The international aluminum can manufacturer ROSTAR maintains a Moscow area factory that produces 50-55 million beverage cans every month. During the manufacturing process, each can...

The NORDAM Group, one of the largest independently owned aerospace and aviation companies in the world, recently experienced success with a Lean SCORETM project aimed at reducing t...

The standard treatment for patients who are unable to breathe on their own is to sedate them and put them on a ventilator. In a hospital ICU (Intensive Care Unit), patients on vent...

Sometimes the hardest part of innovation is making the breakthrough you envision. Isn't that where innovation always falls down? Right between the 'Big Idea' and the...

Introducing a highly reliable tool that can be used to effectively measure creative problem-solving and thus aid Innovation.

Introducing several Lean tools that can improve the DMAIC process and add value to Six Sigma, whether or not you label your programme 'Lean Six Sigma'...

That is the Six Sigma cycle of change; it is very hard to get things rolling in the beginning, but once the wheel of change is in motion, it is easy to sustain. In other words, Six...

It has been said that Lean Six Sigma is nothing more than Six Sigma with a few Lean tools sprinkled in. Five years ago this may have been true, but today it is not: now, it is a hy...

Many companies struggle with the concept of innovation and how it contributes to their growth. This white paper shows how to make innovation predictable, reliable and sustainable.

Successful Change Leadership is not an easy task. In this article, BMG reduce change management to six critical factors that are key to enabling a successful Change Effort.

Ask yourself this question: can you clearly explain your company's vision and goals for the improvement initiative in 30 seconds or less? If not, this is a good clue that you ...

<i>Best practices</I>. We read about them all the time, but what is a best practice? Does it mean someone has figured out how to do something better than everyone else?...

At the graduation ceremony for our first group of Six Sigma Guides, which you may call Black Belts, I read the entire poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. I read it because I...

Sales and Marketing are about more than just 'the relationship.' Although the 'art of the relationship' is critical to sales and marketing, in today's worl...