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Featured Presenter:Randy ClarkBlack Belt & Director of Six SigmaPowerSteering Software

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Make Your Six Sigma Team Repeat Champs with Project Replication

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Make Your Team Repeat Champswith Project Replication

Randy Clark, Director of Six SigmaFeb 15, 2012

Growing up in the NFL

Dolphins 1973

Not Quite the Hall of Fame for Me

Football & CI

The Big Y is to WinMeasure, Analyze, & Improve

– Player Statistics– Film Analysis

• Why Did You Coach the Way You Did?– “That’s the Way Shula Did It”– Stealing Shamelessly– Replication

• As CI Professionals How do We Take Advantage of Replication?

Pull Push

The Basics of Replication

Capture

Use

Produce

Make It Easy For People to Search Out and Leverage Knowledge.• Capture

– DatabaseProjectsArtifacts / DocumentsBenchmarking FindingsValue Stream Mapping & Analysis

– CharacterizeBest Practices

Pull Strategies

Tag Your Projects and Documents… • Type, Location, Process Addressed,

Stakeholders Affected, Supporting Goals & Strategies

Designate Best Practices• Implement a Process to Nominate and

Approve Best Practices• Communicate / Recognize

– “Three of my projects and 12 of my Document Deliverables are Rated Best Practices”

Characterize

Search• Standard Project Templates Start With a Search Reminder

Use the Knowledge

Search for Best Practices

Manual Search

Community of Practice ForumsOn-Line Bulletin Boards & Discussion Threads

Pull Push

The Basics of Replication

Capture

Use

Produce

Push Replication

Track Financial Benefits

This Location Saves $

Identify & Assess

Candidates

Faster execution and 3x more Savingsw/ Replication

Push Approved

Candidates to other

Locations

Identify Replication Opportunities

Identify Processes AddressedTo Match Location Processes

Indicate Project’sReplication Potential

Track Opportunities on Dashboards

Replicate the Project

1. Select “Replicate”

Replicates the Project to Each Location as a “Proposed” Project.

2. Select Each Location

Replicated Project

New Project Name is Changed…

Location Owner Notified of New Opportunity

Includes a Reference to the Original Project. Provides Easy Access to Documents and Relevant Information from Original.

#1 Failure Mode

Solution: Process of Visibility & Accountability

Follow For Implementation

Monitor Status of all Replicas.

Why Was This OpportunityRejected?

Drive Accountability

Drilling into the “Rejected” Project we See that this Project has a “Equipment Compatibility” Issue

Report

Track, Report, and Manage

Key Replication

Metrics

Inject Replication into Key Processes

Mentoring

Training

Replication

Communication / Reporting

Leadership Management / Training

Tools & Equipment

Black Belt ManagementBlack Belt Selection Repatriate

Project Selection Status ReportingChartering Project Execution

HR Policies Compensation RecognitionReporting, Backfill, Office Space

CI Process Inventory

Replication During Selection

Target Zone

Replication in Global Manufacturing

25 locations ‐ 11 countries Executive mandate to replicate success100% increase in projects replicatingPowerSteering library

captures best practicesidentifies replication candidates

Objective:• Leverage Knowledge and Success to Produce

Results in Multiple Locations.– Increase Benefits, Reduce Cycle Time

Process:• Capture and Characterize Knowledge

– Provide for Pull Opportunities

• Identify Projects with Replication Potential• Push the Project to Multiple Locations as

Solutions to Be Implemented• Track and Report on Implementation• Inject Replication into Key Processes

– Project Selection– Training

Scoring with Replication

Randy Clark

203‐228‐4398

rlcark@psteering.com

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