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Six Sigma Comes to IT Targeting Perfection. Reader ROI How the Six Sigma process methodology applies to IT What Six Sigma can and can't do for you Best practices for rolling it out Six Sigma is a defect reduction methodology that forces organisations to focus on the quality of the customer experience.

Six Sigma Comes to IT Targeting Perfection

And it can most definitely be applied to IT. The IT organisation at Raytheon Aircraft saved $US500,000 from a single project in 2002. The nine CIOs at Textron saved a total of $US5 million in six months. One team of engineers at Fidelity Wide Processing expects to deliver $US6 million to $US8 million in cost reductions this year. Some of the largest IT organisations are looking trim and vigorous these days. Six Sigma is a defect reduction methodology that transforms organisations by forcing them to focus on the quality of the customer experience.

Downloads - Lean Advancement Initiative. The MIT Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) was a research consortium that was founded in 1993 and active through 2012.

Downloads - Lean Advancement Initiative

LAI’s purpose was to enable enterprises to effectively, efficiently, and reliably create value in complex and rapidly changing environments. Over the course of nearly two decades, LAI’s collaborative partnerships with industry, government, and academic partners fostered the development of institutional principles, processes, behaviors, and tools for enterprise excellence. LAI’s complete collection of products and tools, theses, case studies, etc., are available on DSpace@MIT. LAI’s Educational Network (EdNet) was launched in 2002 and grew into an international consortium of educational institutions that channeled LAI research findings and best practices into undergraduate and graduate lean educational curricula. EdNet also co-founded the Lean Educator Conference, an annual conference for lean teachers and trainers. WP 100805 Bozdogan Integration. TQM,total quality managementsix sigma, differences, similarities.

E-Government, E-Services and Global ... Human Interaction Management. Michael zur Muehlen Presentations. Passion for Process: BPM + FDD = Faster Delivery of ROI. Business process change: A guide for business managers and Six Sigma professionals. Business process change: A guide for business managers and BPM and Six Sigma professionals, 2nd Edition , by Paul Harmon; copyright 2007.

Business process change: A guide for business managers and Six Sigma professionals

It is reprinted here with permission from Morgan Kaufmann, a division of Elsevier . Read the full chapter, " Business process change: A guide for business managers and Six Sigma professionals . " When you register, you'll begin receiving targeted emails from my team of award-winning writers. Our goal is to keep you informed on the hottest data and information management trends today. New technologies have often led to new business processes. Many different trends led to the growing focus on systems that began in the 1960s. Business process management: survey and methodology. Due to the growing concern about the competitiveness of US industry in the international marketplace, several initiatives are now underway to enhance the competitive posture of the nation's firms.

Business process management: survey and methodology

Many companies are engaged in assessing ways in which their productivity, product quality, and operations can be improved. A relatively new area of such improvements is business process management (BPM). BPM can be any structured approach used to analyze and continually improve fundamental activities, such as manufacturing, marketing, communications, and other major elements of a company's operation. This paper describes a generic step-by-step method for BPM which encompasses methods employed in industry from incremental improvements to reengineering.

To better understand BPM, the authors have conducted a survey of major US companies on their approaches to process quality assessment. WFMC.org Homepage. TQM: Evolution, Scope and Strategic Significance for Management Development. Wiki: Business process management. Managing e-transformation in the public sector: an e-government s. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: Continuous organizational transformation is becoming a common phenomenon as public agencies rapidly embrace new information technologies (IT) to streamline and re-invent their obsolete operations.

Managing e-transformation in the public sector: an e-government s

However, due to the overwhelming extent of the necessary changes as well as the sheer diversity of stakeholders involved in transforming corporate functions, practitioners are finding it difficult to manage the level of dynamism required in the effort. In an attempt to shed some light on the phenomenon of managing e-transformation, this paper examines in-depth an e-government initiative. Through the study of how one organization in the public sector adapts to the dynamic customer relations brought about by e-transformation, the case serves to identify the governing factors for successful organization–stakeholder relations, and how these may have a bearing on the development of effective e-transformation strategies. Document Type: Research Article. BPM Methodology: Strategy and Tactics - Process Is The Main Thing.

Although a single agreed definition of BPM has not yet been developed, most experts agree that BPM is a combination of management methodology and software tools.

BPM Methodology: Strategy and Tactics - Process Is The Main Thing

But what is BPM methodology and does BPM have a methodology of its own? To get started, what process methodologies constitute today’s mainstream? OMG BPM/SOA Community of Practice sub-group meeting (2010-04-21) review. This post is some elaboration of topics discussed at the first meeting of the sub-group (Design Patterns / Integration Scenarios and Methodologies & Approaches) on 2010-04-21.

OMG BPM/SOA Community of Practice sub-group meeting (2010-04-21) review

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