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Why Project Management is Essential to Successful Six Sigma Project Implementation
It is common knowledge that most organizations run at a three-sigma quality level and that they lose between 20 and 40 cents of every operating dollar to poor quality. The same statistics apply to projects. The Standish Group has been surveying IT projects for over a decade and continues to find high failure rates—as much as 30 percent of them canceled and 50 percent needing to be revised. And....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Six Sigma project management | Lewis Institute | Project Management Institute |
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Planning Your Project
The Need for Project Planning In my previous column, I pointed out that projects often do not succeed because of a failure to define the problem. Another major reason for project failure is inadequate project planning. To demonstrate the importance of this, recent surveys repeatedly find that only about 15 percent of all projects meet their performance, cost, time and scope targets. And the main rea....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project manager | project planning | James Lewis |
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The Next Step in Project Management: How to Form Six Sigma Project Teams
In previous columns I discussed a number of aspects of project management, including project initiation, how project management is defined and how to plan. Now I will discuss how to form a Six Sigma project team. And, since I am not an expert in Six Sigma itself, I have asked a colleague of mine to help with this. Let me begin by introducing Tom Ostasiewski, who is a registered engineer, PMP® and a S....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Six Sigma project | Six Sigma leadership | Six Sigma management |
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Planning Process Improvement Project Strategy
One of the missing elements of most process improvement project planning is attention to the strategy you will employ to do the job. We all know about implementation planning. That is determining exactly how the work will be done. However, we often fall back on doing our work the same way we have always done it, without asking a fundamental question: “Isn’t there a better way?” Fin....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: process improvement | process improvement strategy | James Lewis |
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Facilitating Six Sigma Project Meetings
There is no doubt that if you are managing a Six Sigma project, you will conduct a lot of meetings as part of the process. There are two major issues with meetings. First, they tend to waste a lot of time because of meeting management (or maybe I should say mismanagement) problems. They have no clear agenda; and when they do, they often lose focus and get off onto tangents. They go on ad nauseum, have to....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project management | group dynamics | James Lewis |
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Why Managers (And Project Managers) Can’t Manage—And What to Do About It
In the past several years, we have seen so many corporations implode, explode or whatever, that it is easy to accept what Peter Drucker is credited with saying: The first myth of management is that it exists. (It is not clear whether Drucker actually said this, but he did make similar statements that are on record.) It is not just the Enron debacle that has been in the spotlight, but the mess the mortgag....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Law of Requisite Variety | project management | empowerment |
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The Essence of Project Management
One common definition of mananagement is that a manager gets work done by other people. This is certainly not very helpful when you consider that guards over prisoners doing road work also get work done by other people, but we would hardly call them managers. In 1973, Peter Drucker, considered by many to be the “father” of management, wrote a book titled Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, P....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project management | Project Management Institute | Project Management Body of Knowledge |
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Project Initiation: Where Project Management Often Fails
The Project Management Body of Knowledge There are five major processes defined by the Project Management Institute’s document, the Project Management Body of Knowledge, or PMBOK®. These are Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closeout. It is at the Initiation stage of project management that the seeds of project management failure are often sown. The reas....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Project Management Body of Knowledge | project definition | PMBOK |
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Where Keynes Went Wrong: A Discussion with Author Hunter Lewis
“Spend more, save less, grow wealthy” sounds like counterintuitive advice. But many world governments use this dictate for their own economic policy, and the idea came from one of the most influential economic thinkers of the last century, John Maynard Keynes. In this Profit through Process |
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Author: Genna Weiss Tags: Keynesian model | economic policy | Obama administration |
Transforming the NHSBernard Crump, CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, shares his insights into the improvement developments of the NHS at the 11th Annual IQPC Process Excellence Summit and Awards. Crump discusses: • How the NHS has improved over the last decade • The four |
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