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Vision - if your leaders don’t have it, how can you expect from your employees? But how do you make your operational excellence vision more powerful than a couple of meaningless slogans stuck in a Powerpoint somewhere? In this Process Perspectives interview, Berndt Forssell, Senior

How do you maintain flexibility while at the same time being able to anticipate and scale up to customer demand? In this Process Perspectives podcast, Kulbushan, the Global Head of Business Excellence at Jubilant Lifesciences, one of India’s largest pharmaceutical companies,  

How do you get to the next level of productivity improvement? By not starting off with what you've got, says Derek Miers, BPM industry Analyst at Forrester Research. Businesses need to think about what they should be delivering to their customers, says Miers, and not

The BPM software market is overly geared towards IT automation, says independent analyst Ian Leaver at Forward Look. In this Process Perspectives, based on a video interview recorded LIVE at Pex Week Europe earlier this year, Leaver argues that Business Process Management

"The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge," said Dr. W Edwards Deming over two decades ago, an insight that is perhaps even more relevant today with the explosion of information sources now at   our

Change in a big organization does not come free, says Eric Sirgo, General Manager of Operations at Chevron Europe. In this Process Perspectives podcast, Sirgo discusses the history of Chevron's Lean Six Sigma program, how it began as a grassroots effort before getting picked up by

Italy. Britain. France. The United States. Greece. Spain. Ireland. A few short years ago, that would have been a roll call of some of the hottest economies on the planet – now without exception all are facing tough questions about the future of government services and what

Slower growth and increasing competition means that there is increasing pressure on profit margins so improving process efficiency to drive growth has become a critical role of process improvement in the industry. That was the view of Mark Zirbser, Head of Process Excellence at

Failure is something that we don’t like to talk about and like to commit even less. But it’s an essential part of the learning process and if you work in continuous improvement, there’s a good chance that the road to excellence will have a few

Rapid technological innovation and an uncertain economic climate means that neither businesses nor individuals can afford to stand still. But like anyone who has tried to stick to a fitness regime can testify…change isn’t easy. Especially when it involves changing the

Like it or not, governments around the world are slashing budgets left right and center. Can they cut costs and still improve services? Some are looking to Lean Six Sigma for answers. But is it the right tool set and how can governments use it effectively? PEX Network Editor, Diana

Can Lean Six Sigma really save the government $500 billion dollars a year? Those were the claims put forward by Republican party candidate Newt Gingrich in a recent Fox News interview. Gingrich is just one of the latest politicians to sign up to campaign group  Strong America

Innovation and process improvement go hand in hand, says Alessandro Laureani, Global Operations Processes and Systems Manager at what might be considered one of the most innovative companies on this planet….Google. There's a lot that needs to happen between the

As the pace of change acclerates can traditional process improvement tools keep pace? It's time for Lean Six Sigma to grow up, says Gregory North, Vice President of Corporate Lean Six Sigma at Xerox. In this Process Perspectives interview, North discusses some of the

Do you have a “to-do list” that’s a mile long? And how often do you finish the day with every item checked off? It might be that the "to do" list is actually hampering your productivity. At least that's the argument put forward by Peter Bregman author