MoreSteam President Peg Pennington recently chatted with two experienced virtual study hall leaders, Chris Spranger of Spranger Business Solutions and Strategic Quality Solutions’ Maria Fry. The three agree that there might be nothing more valuable to students than coaches connecting one-on-one. Read the article to learn how to lead impactful study halls customized to fit varied attendee needs.
"The biggest thing we hear is that candidates need to hit the ground running," said James Swisher, Director of Continuing Education and Program Development for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Learn how a new partnership with MoreSteam is helping IISE to reenvision how it can better serve its 14,000+ membership with a variety of channels for professional development.
Much has changed in the 70 years that Kaoru Ishikawa was quoted as saying, “As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.” It’s worth examining whether Ishikawa’s belief has held true in modern application. Are these the right tools? Is anything missing? And if so, what is a good model going forward?
One powerful tool to sustain your continuous improvement culture and to maintain alignment with organizational priorities can be found in your recertification requirements – but this is a delicate dance. Leading companies find it best to balance project-specific recertification requirements with active involvement in the organization’s coaching, mentoring, and problem-solving initiatives.
The "new normal" is ours to define. Is your organization designing it or adapting in it? Join us for our 19th annual Best Practices for Operational Excellence Conference. The 2021 agenda is structured as a flexible series of four sessions to fit your busy schedule. As always, the focus is on practical knowledge you can take back to improve your program, your workplace, and your organization. No registration fees. No travel required. No all-day sessions.
One of the hardest parts of developing a continuous improvement culture comes immediately after the celebratory toast with a project team: making sure the win just clinched is one of more to come, not just a "one-hit wonder." The objective of continuous improvement is a consistent and sustained culture of problem solving — a wall of platinum records produced over many years, not just a lone Top-10 single.
Join Lars Maaseidvaag, Vice President of Product Development and Lead Master Black Belt instructor, to learn how building virtual prototypes can help to stress test your process. Reveal problems before your customers find them. This package includes an online course, process modeling software, and live broadcasts. Live sessions will be held on September 23 & 30. $150 covers all materials.
Though forged in the transformative practices of Japanese automakers, the principles of continuous improvement aren't unique to a specific culture. In a 15-year stretch from 2004 to 2019, Costa Rica's GDP has more than tripled from $18.6 billion to $64 billion. The remarkable transformation of the country's economy has sparked a surge of interest in continuous improvement.
We've seen Lean Six Sigma "green belt" or even "black belt" courses a few days in length, with a long list of topics in the curriculum, but little time spent on any of the subjects, and no practice. It would be like selling food that is "fortified" with 100 vitamins, but with only a trace amount of each. Without a nutrition label, it's difficult to know about the real ingredients.
As companies begin to negotiate their paths back to pre-pandemic operations, I've been hearing the term "return to work" a lot. The problem with that term: we never left work. We just brought work home, all of us while looking for flickers of normalcy in a stretch of history that has been anything but normal. Like many other companies, MoreSteam is mapping out what office life will be as we emerge from the pandemic.
Continue your professional development with the Executive Certificate in Data Science. This 7-week virtual program is offered in partnership with the University of Notre Dame. You will be introduced to the basic methods of machine learning and big data, as applied to process improvement challenges. Registration includes online coursework, 14 instructor-led virtual sessions, and a subscription to EngineRoom.
Join us for this introduction to process modeling and prepare for all kinds of scenarios. See how modeling can let you explore process variability and what happens when things change. Understand how you can answer "what if" questions like: What happens if someone doesn't show up for work? Or errors create rework? Or a process step hits a snag and takes longer? July 27th @ 1:00 PM
Move seamlessly from brainstorming on an Affinity Diagram to defining CTQCs. Then select your design using Cause & Effect Matrix, Basic QFD, or Pugh Analysis before validating your design with the new scorecard. Your information will auto-populate the next template to reduce work and potential for mistakes. Log in to see these new features for yourself!
Founded in 1948, IISE is the world's largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. With this new partnership, MoreSteam will offer a curriculum of its online process improvement courses to support continued professional development of the IISE international membership.
This new Summer Master Series will focus on the tools used to map workflows and process performance. Live sessions will review core process maps like SIPOC, Value Stream Maps, Value-added Flow Charts, and Spaghetti Diagrams as you complete an "out of this world" case study. Package includes two live sessions, a short online course, and EngineRoom software. $150 includes all materials.
Join Kathy Miller, MoreSteam Vice President of Business Development, and a panel hosted by PwC to learn how the blended learning approach is being used successfully to train and certify people in Lean Six Sigma. You will get acquainted with the MoreSteam platform and hear our panel share their experiences with the blended learning approach by focusing on how it adds value to day-to-day operations. June 22.
Join us at SimCamp to see how simulations can kickstart your training curriculum. We'll cover how the simulations can be used to help drive a problem-solving culture in your organization from project team training to executive onboarding. Then, you'll get a 360-view as you try on the role of a participant. Our expert facilitators will share their insights and you'll leave with plenty of ideas to take back to your organization.
Reporting on your projects shouldn't be work, but we know it can be. TRACtion's new report builder helps you to create impactful custom reports to share project metrics across the enterprise. The Wizard guides you through selecting and organizing the most meaningful report components for your stakeholders. Focus on project work, not reporting work.
A compelling visual display of your data is key to your audience understanding the ‘so what’ of your analysis. Our EngineRoom team recently upgraded the charting function to provide high resolution output to help you tell your story. Your charts will look crisper and you can use your own logo color codes to truly personalize the look.
MoreSteam recently became a member of the Center for Operational Excellence (COE) at The Ohio State University. Founded more than 25 years ago, COE is a network of organizations committed to building and sustaining a culture of problem solving and continuous improvement. COE member organizations span the manufacturing, supply chain, financial services, and utilities sectors and connect to share common challenges and best practices.
It was a huge cultural shift for us to go from saying "I feel" to instead saying "the data tells me."
The YMCA of Greater Cincinnati is applying Lean Six Sigma thinking to overcome membership and workforce challenges. Keri Brewer, former Master Black Belt with Bridgestone, is leading the way and MoreSteam's project management software, TRACtion, is providing the platform for the organization’s work.
How does continuous improvement differ in the U.S. compared to Europe? What elements have been overlooked when teaching the material? Arnd Huchzermeier, Chaired Professor of Production Management at the WHU — Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and Co-Founder of the INSEAD-WHU Industrial Excellence Award shares his thoughts and experiences about developing skilled CI practitioners.
"When I talk to companies, what they want most are employees who can think critically and solve problems," said Alan Goodman, Instructional Chair for the Quality Engineering and Technology program at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). "Being able to come in and do the job you're asked to do is great, but if you're able to see the big picture and be a problem-solver, that's how you really add value."
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