Webcasts
Recorded Presentations
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Education and Blended Learning
"Building the Infrastructure to Make Training Stick"
Marti Beltz, PhD., LSSMBB, Independent Consultant, March, 2016
"Building Proficiency in Process Improvement Skills"
Bill Hathaway, President - MoreSteam.com, January, 2016
"Leaning Forward in Detroit"
Aimée Cowher, City of Detroit Director - Lean Process Management, August, 2015
"From the Shop Floor to C-Suite: Operational Excellence at Jabil"
Evelyn Ferrer, Lean Six Sigma Director - Automotive Division, Jabil, July, 2015
"Innovation Academy: Performance Excellence at Dignity Health"
Paul Feltz, Senior Director of Performance Excellence, Dignity Health, May, 2015
"Eli Lilly: Continuously Improving Our Continuous Improvement Process"
Humberto DeLuca - Eli Lilly, February, 2015
"IBM Lean Six Sigma Training: Delivering Blended Learning across a Global Enterprise"
Michael Testani, Don Sobeski, Luca Bencini - IBM, November, 2014
"Leaning Up State Government: It Can Be Done"
Bill Demidovich, LeanOhio, June, 2013
"Flipping Your Lean Six Sigma Training: Getting the Blend Right"
Andrea Church, Hertz, and Bill Casey, Quest Diagnostics, May, 2013
"After 150 Years of Improvement, Getting Better Faster"
Carol Mullaney, University of Notre Dame, December, 2012
"Standards for Lean Six Sigma Certification: Raising the Bar across the Board"
Peg Pennington, Executive Director of The Center for Operational Excellence at Ohio State University, Rachel Lane, Associate Vice President, Business Excellence at Nationwide, and Bill Hathaway, Founder and CEO of MoreSteam.com, March, 2010
"Building the Business Case for Lean Six Sigma e-Learning"
Doug Evans, Master Black Belt and former Director of Lean Six Sigma training at Quest Diagnostics, Michelle Johnson, Executive Director Textron Six Sigma, and Bill Hathaway, CEO of MoreSteam.com , May, 2009
"Chasing ZERO at Cardinal Health: We Got Game"
Holly Stein, Director of Operational Excellence at Cardinal Health, and Bill Hathaway, Founder and CEO of MoreSteam.com , May, 2009
SLIDES: Web-Based Instruction: Design and Technical Issues which Influence Training Effectiveness
Dr. Traci Sitzmann and Katherine Ely, Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab Hub , November, 2009
SLIDES: The Comparative Effectiveness of Web-Based and Classroom Instruction: A Meta-Analysis
Dr. Traci Sitzmann, Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab Hub , November, 2005
Tools and Statistics
"Pragmatic Problem Solving"
Troy Burgess, Corporate CI Manager, TreeHouse Foods, February, 2018
"Kano Analysis: Prioritizing Customer Needs"
Doug Evans, Senior Lecturer at Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, June, 2016
"Tech Tool Talk: Swap Tests"
Kevin Keller, Anheuser-Busch InBev LSS Master Black Belt, April, 2016"Powering Up Your Lean Six Sigma Projects"
Smita Skrivanek, Product Manager and Principal Statistician, MoreSteam.com, March, 2015
"The Not-So-Fuzzy Front End: Flowing the Voice of the Customer into Functional Requirements"
Tom Scripps - Scripps & Associates, PC, August, 2014
"DOE: From Hunch to Crunch (A Tremco Case Study)"
Richard Wiltse - MBB, Tremco Inc., June, 2014
"Power Your Processes with Web-based Data Analysis"
Smita Skrivanek, Senior Statistician, MoreSteam.com, Febuary 2014
"Lean Work Cell Design: Taking the Lessons of Cellular Manufacturing into Service Organizations"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaagg , MoreSteam.com LLC, August, 2013
"Translating Customer Expectations with Quality Function Deployment"
Sheryl Vogt, Vogt Consulting, Inc., April, 2013
"Into the Trenches of Regression Analysis" (Part 2)
Smita Skrivanek, MoreSteam.com, February, 2013
"The Power and the Pitfalls of Multiple Regression Analysis" (Part 1)
Smita Skrivanek, MoreSteam.com, January, 2013
"Things Your Teacher Never Told You about Test Optimization"
Neal Mackertich, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, November, 2012
"Monte Carlo Simulation: Don't Gamble Away Your Project Success"
Maurice Klaus, MoreSteam.com, January, 2012
"Is Your Driver Tree Stuck in Neutral?"
Maurice Klaus, MoreSteam.com, December, 2011
"Experimental Design in the Transactional Arena"
Smita Skrivanek, MoreSteam.com, April, 2011
"Fault Tree Analysis for Root Cause Analysis of Sporadic Events"
Debra Detwiler, Bridgestone Americas, November, 2010
"Could Your Balanced Scorecard Use Some Lean Six Sigma?"
Maurice Klaus, MoreSteam.com, November, 2010
"The Transactional Dilemma: Understanding Regression with Attribute Data"
Smita Skrivanek, MoreSteam.com, August, 2010
Lean Methods, Design and Modeling
"Making It Work: A Story of Improvement at CDOT"
Gary Vansuch, Michelle Malloy, and Geneva Hooten. , December, 2018
"How Much is Enough?"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag, MoreSteam.com, March, 2017
Lean Gahanna
Jennifer Teal, City Administrator - City of Gahanna, July, 2016
"Lean Concepts and the Cardinal Health Experience"
Todd Thompson, Cardinal Health, December, 2015
"Kaizen Leadership - Improving the Practice: Performance Ratio"
Whitney Mantonya, Collaborative Lean Solutions, LLC, November, 2015
Free Webcast - "Everyday A3 Conversations: Practicing for Mastery"
Dr. Eric Olsen, Cal Poly State University, March, 2013
"A3 Reports: Polishing the Elevator Speech"
Tor Chamberlain, Clopay, October, 2012
"Balance and Bottlenecks and Triggers, Oh My"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag, September, 2012
"Eating the Elephant: Designing and Deploying Continual Improvement in a Multi-Site Environment"
Bill D'Innocenzo, Vice President of Global IMPAQ, Fresenius Medical Care, July, 2012
"Process Design Thinking - Simple Methods to Get It Right the First Time"
William Hathaway, CEO, MoreSteam.com, June, 2012
"Introduction to Replenishment Pull"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag, MoreSteam.com, October, 2010
"Core Process Pull: Little's Law in Action"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag, MoreSteam.com, August, 2010
"Driving Insight Through Process Modeling"
Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag, MoreSteam.com, May, 2011
Healthcare Topics
"Deploying A3 Storytelling at Mercy Health"
Joe Schultz, Mercy Health, May, 2018
"How Long is the Wait? Analyzing Flow in the Emergency Department"
Michelle Johnson, Covidien, April, 2012
"Better Process Design Using Fast Prototyping - The 3P Process for Healthcare"
Anne Musitano and Michael Antochow, Akron Children's Hospital, March, 2012
Projects and Coaching
"Improving Customer Flow in the Lobby"
Tyler Vonderheide - Continuous Improvement Lead, Southwest Airlines, September, 2018
"Don't Just Manage Change, Inspire Change"
Chris Spranger - CEO, Spranger Business Solutions, July, 2018
"Working Projects to Close: Why Is It So Hard?"
Lutz Tückmantel, Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean Advisor, May, 2016
"A Leader's Guide to Creating Operational Excellence"
Dr. Sandy Furterer, Vice President Process Transformation - Park National Bank, February, 2016
"Coaching to Unlock Hidden Creativity in Your Organization"
Jameson Rehm, Mount Carmel Health System, October, 2015
"Developing a Collective Consciousness for Process Improvement"
Gene Rogers, Associate Partner, SteelPointe Partners, April, 2015
"Winning Hearts & Minds: 20 Simple Techniques to Create Buy-In"
Julie Amling - Wexner Medical Center and Nanette Richardson - Berger Health System, January, 2015
"Finding Project Management Software for Your Lean Six Sigma Projects"
Brian McDaniel - MoreSteam.com LLC, October, 2014
"Leading High Performance Teams in a Multi-Generational Environment"
Dr. D. Scott Sink - The Ohio State University, September, 2014
"Make Change Communication Personal"
Kirby James - LSSMBB, Business Architect, May, 2014
"A Can't Miss Model for Coaching: Putting a Framework behind the Soft Stuff"
Sheryl Vogt - Vogt Consulting
Maria Fry - Strategic Quality Solutions, April, 2014
"To the Gemba and More: A Walk to See the Waste"
Linda Dodge - St. Rita's Medical Center, March, 2014
Janell Vickers- Catholic Health Partners
"Creating Pull for Continuous Improvement"
Dale Gibbons, Vice President, Chief Operations Officer - Farm Credit Mid-America, January 2014
"High Fidelity Customized Classroom Simulation at PPG"
Jesse Shearin, Director Corporate Enterprise Excellence - PPG Industries, November, 2013
"Are We Making Progress as Leaders: How do we know?"
Al Faber, President & CEO, The Partnership for Excellence, October, 2013
"Big Opportunities, Big Challenges: Lessons Learned from Large Deployments"
Whitney Mantonya, Collaborative Lean Solutions, September, 2013
"Begin with the End in Mind: Creating & Sustaining Change"
Kirby James, President, The K James Group, August, 2012
"Leading with Lean"
Dr. Peter Ward, The Ohio State University, May, 2012
"Managing Change in Lean Six Sigma Deployments in Highly Regulated Environments"
Brian Eden, Senior Director and Global Head, Operational Excellence at Mylan Pharmaceuticals, February, 2012
"Projects: From Idea to 'Done' and Back Again"
Maria Fry, MBB and owner, Strategic Quality Solutions, November, 2011
"The Art of Distance Coaching"
Peg Pennington, Executive Director of The Center for Operational Excellence at Ohio State University, October, 2011
"Negotiating Your Way to Success"
Dr. Roy Lewicki, The Ohio State University, May, 2011
"Building Discipline Around the DMAIC Methodology: Tollgate Review Best Practices"
Dr. Scott Sink, The Ohio State University, July, 2010
"Intrusive Coaching: Increasing Your Belts' Capability, Confidence, and Control"
Dr. Diane Reddy, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Keith Schellenberger, Lean Six Sigma Consultant at Lenovo, and Bill Hathaway, Founder and CEO of MoreSteam.com, December, 2009
Product and Instructional Demos
"Introducing the St. Sigma Simulation"
MoreSteam.com, December, 2011
The Sigma Lake DFSS Simulation Demonstration
MoreSteam.com, October, 2009
Simulation-Based DFSS Instruction
MoreSteam.com, August, 2005