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Are You Sitting in the Right Seat?

When it comes to your employees, it is important to hire selectively, but equally important to ensure that each employee is in the right position. Having all of the right people on your bus is not helpful or even workable unless each team member is also in the right seat. So how can you determine…
Advancement Against All Odds

According to the Harvard Business Review, “Over the last 50 years, the average lifespan of S&P 500 companies has shrunk from around 60 years to closer to 18 years.” Additionally, a National Association of Manufacturers study stated that employee benefits, tax rates, regulatory requirements, tort litigation, and energy created a 22% disadvantage. Unfortunately, while small-…
4 Steps to Organize for Success

When business problems arise, most turn to process redesign as opposed to organizational redesign. Why? First, because process redesigns are poorly informed, poorly planned, and poorly performed. Second, because the accepted business tool set is geared toward process improvement. But that is not the only way: organizational performance depends integrally on organizational design. And your…
Arizona’s Economic Department Goes Lean

In an effort to improve service, maximize output, and reduce waste, Arizona’s Department of Economic Security recently announced the creation of a DES Lean Transformation Office. The newly created department will align with the Lean Transformation Initiative already put in place by Governor Doug Ducey. Vicki Mayo, a Lean veteran with over ten years of…
Announcing the Pyzdek Institute Lean Healthcare Overview Course

Since 1967, Thomas Pyzdek has offered training and certification courses using the Lean Six Sigma approach in business management. The Institute now recognizes the need for Lean training in the healthcare industry. With health care costs increasing, but patient care remaining stagnant or declining, it is evident Lean training could change the face of the healthcare industry.…
The Basics of Success, Part II: 5 Fundamental Steps

Have you ever looked at someone else’s success and thought, “How did they do that?!” And then looked at yourself and wondered, “Could I do that?” Most of us have big goals, if we let ourselves indulge in them. The fact is, we all have the potential to achieve what we want, most of us…
The Basics of Success, Part I: The Foundation

Whether you do a Google search or browse the self-help section of your local bookstore, you will see a myriad of articles or books that claim to give you the secret formula for success. And the chances are, for the author and a few other people, those formulas work. But real success — regardless of…
City Set To Save $570K After Review of Phone, Internet Services After Six Sigma Project

Lean Six Sigma training can be a huge cost saver for city governments, as one recent effort in the city of El Paso shows. City set to save $570k after review of phone, internet services thanks to a project carried out with Lean Six Sigma training. An employee team led by Roman Sanchez, a Business…
Pyzdek Institute Announces Lean Healthcare Overview Course

The Pyzdek Institute, a world-renowned leader in Lean Six Sigma training, now offers Lean Healthcare training. The pilot program, the Lean Healthcare Overview Course, is available now and the follow-up program, the Lean Healthcare Expert course, will be launched soon. Lean is an operational excellence methodology that focuses on the flow of value through a…
Pyzdek Institute Announces Training Program Upgrades

The Pyzdek Institute is known and respected as one of the top providers of Six Sigma training and certification in the world. Our training programs and publications have been used by thousands of people across the globe. We have been incredibly successful, but we are always striving to improve, stay relevant, and be on top…