Focus on Innovation
Market and Knowledge Newsletter February 2008
The onesixsigma.com Market Newsletter for the Six Sigma and Lean Professional
This month on onesixsigma.com we will be taking a more in-depth look at the burgeoning area of Innovation. With the subject being the key topic at a meeting of world leaders recently - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7798 , the requirements for an organisation to innovate have never been more apparent, or as high on the strategic agenda.
In addition to publishing informative articles explaining innovative thinking, techniques and methods, we will be speaking to leaders in innovative practices, practitioners and organisations implementing innovation strategies, and reviewing a course on innovation tools for change agents, run by BMG.
Also coming up this month, we will be publishing case studies following Lean implementation in two very different environments: one in a manufacturing facility, the other in accounting. We will also be looking at Six Sigma in Small and Medium enterprises, how to successfully implement Balanced Scorecard in an organisation, and delving deeper into the hot topic of Supply Chain Management.
In April we will be holding our first User Group Meeting of the year in association with our new partners, i&i. The agenda for the meeting is still being fine-tuned, but it will focus on balanced scorecard, communities of practice, and Hoshin Kanri. As ever, numbers will be restricted to ensure high quality collaboration, and we already have a number of people who have expressed an interest in attending.
The pick of last month’s articles….
onesixsigma.com review of 2007 - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7651 Retiring the House of Quality - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7836 Supply Chain Management: creating a spirit of co-operation between suppliers and customers - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7879 Building a learning organisation - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7629 What is a Community of Practice? - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7907Also, for German language speakers, we have published a series of articles in German.:
Das EFQM-Modell: Ein Rahmenkonzept zur Business Excellence - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7959 Die DIN EN ISO 9000 Richtlinien: Eine kurze Übersicht - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7963 Das Six Sigma Kennzahlensystem: Quantifizierung der Effekte mangelhafter Qualität von Prozessleistungen mit Six Sigma - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7961Do you have something to contribute to the onesixsigma.com community? Would you like to share your story, or idea, or knowledge? Getting published on onesixsigma.com is easy, and we are particularly interested in non-English content. Get in touch with me using the contact form on the site or by calling 0870 145 1616.
See you next month.
Best regards
Matthew Moore
Market News:
Transactional Lean Training for Service Industry and Processes
BMG | TRAINING
Transactional Lean Training for Service Industry and Processes. Lean continues to experience increased momentum as a valuable tool for improving processes and reducing waste in the service and healthcare industries. - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7954
Minitab | PRESS RELEASE
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Minitab Inc., announced today that customers of Minitab Statistical Software, the company’s flagship product used to analyze data in virtually every major Six Sigma quality improvement initiative worldwide, dominated the list of winne - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7953
Rethinking Product Development
Smallpeice | PRESS RELEASE
When world renowned product development consultant Don Reinertsen returns to the UK in September, his two workshops, organized by Smallpeice Enterprise, will cover two very distinct aspects of improving product development. - http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7877
