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iSixSigma Live! Awards Open
Welcome to the iSixSigma Blogosphere. A couple of housekeeping items...
HTML newsletters are back! Thanks for your patience while we waded through the dark ages of text.
Next, we have changed the frequency of Blogosphere newsletters sent, from every week to every other week. We think you'll be happy with less email, and better newsletters.
This week we invite you to nominate your company for iSixSigma Best Places to Work. While your at it, check out the additional iSixSigma Live! awards open submission.
We're got a fantastic Guest blog by Chris Paret from Moresteam, and a brand new Cox-Box cartoon.
Enjoy. Until next time...
-Michael Marx
http://blogs.isixsigma.com/
Nominate Your Company for iSixSigma's Best Places to Work Last year, 10 companies made iSixSigma's Best Places to Work TM list. Will your company make the list this year?
iSixSigma is looking for the best places for Six Sigma professionals to work - organizations that foster a supportive culture, develop their Six Sigma talent, offer career advancement opportunities, and provide excellent rewards and recognition.
If that sounds like your company, then nominate it today! Those organizations that make the 2009 list will be featured in iSixSigma Magazine and recognized at an awards breakfast at the iSixSigma Live! Summit and Awards, Feb. 1-4 in Miami, where the top Best Places will be announced.
Visit isixsigma.com/bestplaces for more information.
Featured Blog Entry: Open Season For Awards "Open Season For Awards" by Michael Marx
iSixSigma is pleased to announce the opening of award nominations for the iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards in Miami in February 2010. Here's what we are looking for:
* iSixSigma's Six Sigma Hall of Fame: iSixSigma will recognize individuals who have significantly impacted corporate growth and shareholder value through the use of Lean Six Sigma by inducting them into the Six Sigma Hall of Fame. Last year Bill Smith was the first inductee into the Six Sigma Hall of Fame.
* Largest-Breakthrough Improvement Projects: In keeping with the conference theme of "Practices That Make Profits," iSixSigma will recognize Lean Six Sigma projects with the largest "breakthrough" results in four categories – supply chain, transactional, manufacturing and customer service.
* Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Start-up or Re-energized Lean Six Sigma Program: This award recognizes the most successful start-up or the most invigorating re-energized deployment.
* iSixSigma MVP Awards: iSixSigma's MVP awards recognize individuals that have made outstanding voluntary contributions to the Six Sigma community through the iSixSigma Discussion Forum, Blogosphere and Twitter. (Finalists and winners for the MVP awards will be determined by iSixSigma's editorial team.)
The deadline for submitting projects and nominations is Oct 16. For more information on award categories and entry requirements, visit:
http://live.isixsigma.com/awards/default.html
Recent Blog Entries
Recent Blog Comments
My Favorite Tools
My favorite one is the affinity diagram. It's amazing how this gives "structure" to the brainstorming of ideas.
http://blogs.isixsigma.com/archive/my_favorite_tools.html#2649
As a proponent of 'jyotaika' I too like to use the tool that best works for the situation. That said I do have a few favored tools / techniques (my current Top 5 if you will):
-Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP): great for getting consensus view of prioritization with rating of all factors relative to each other.
-Surveygold: I like this software package for surveys because it's easy and flexible but also because it's the only one I've found that generate AHP matrix format questions...
http://blogs.isixsigma.com/archive/my_favorite_tools.html#2650
Guest Blog: Moresteam's Lean Six Sigma Blog
"Punting on the Voice of the Process" by Chris Paret
Not meeting your specifications...a football story
As the saying goes, "Everything is bigger in Texas," and that certainly applies to the scoreboard in the Dallas Cowboys' new $1.2 billion stadium. It's the world's largest 1080p LED Scoreboard with a total screen area of over 11,000 sq ft., and it actually spans the distance from 20 yard line to 20 yard line (over 159ft)!
What's the problem with this modern technological marvel that cost over $40 million dollars? It's too low! In one of the first NFL games played in the Cowboys new stadium, the Tennessee Titan's punter boomed his kick right off the scoreboard.
But how can that be since it was set to the specifications of the NFL, hung at least 90ft above the field? It looks like there are a few things we can learn from this blunder that directly apply to the world of Lean Six Sigma...
Click below to continue reading...
http://www.moresteam.com/blog/index.cfm?blog_id=30
The Cox-Box Cartoon
http://blogs.isixsigma.com/archive/the_boss_goes_to_the_doctor.html
For more of the Cox-Box, visit the archives or the new Cox-Box Store:
Cox-Box Store
http://www.cafepress.com/isixsigma/4815387
Cox-Box Archives
http://blogs.isixsigma.com/garypcox
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