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11/07/08--11:00: Interview with Rajesh Tyagi, co-Author of A Complete and Balanced Service Scorecard - Nov 07,2008 (chan 2962701)

Rajesh Tyagi will reveal what inspired him and Praveen Gupta, his co-author, to design a balanced scorecard for the service industry. In this interview with e-BIM editor Genna Weiss, Tyagi identifies key insights and methods for measuring performance in any service business.


12/11/08--11:00: Interview with IQPC Process Excellence Award Finalist Adam Sharp, Master Black Belt for The Hartford - Dec 11,2008 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss interviews Adam Sharp, Assistant Vice President and Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the The Hartford Insurance Group, to discuss his finalist status for IQPC’s 2009 Process Excellence award in the Master Black Belt of the Year Award category.


12/11/08--12:00: Interview with IQPC Process Excellence Award Finalist Jeffrey Cox of eflexgroup.com - Dec 11,2008 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss interviews Jeffrey Cox, Lean Six Sigma Facilitator for eflexgroup.com, to discuss his finalist status for IQPC’s 2009 Process Excellence award in the Best Start-Up Program category.


12/12/08--11:00: Interview with IQPC Process Excellence Award Finalist Liz Feirstein, Master Black Belt for Allstate - Dec 12,2008 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss interviews Liz Feirstein, Master Black Belt for Allstate Insurance, to discuss her finalist status for IQPC’s 2009 Process Excellence award in the Master Black Belt of the Year Award category.


01/08/09--07:00: A Panel Discussion with Three 2009 IQPC Process Excellence Awards Judges - Jan 08,2009 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss speaks with three 2009 IQPC Process Excellence Awards judges---Diane Francisco, Global Director for Process Excellence for Covance; JD Rapp, Vice President of Business Process Management for Whirlpool Corporation; and John Douglas, Vice President of Business Process Management for Hess---to discuss the highlights of the upcoming event.


01/16/09--07:00: Interview with John Kamensky, Member of the Government Peformance Coalition - Jan 16,2009 (chan 2962701)

Government performance management has come into the limelight with the new Barack Obama appointment of Nancy Killefer as Chief Performance Officer. Genna Weiss speaks with John Kamensky, Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government and a member of the Government Performance Coalition, to discuss the Coalition's government performance management recommendations directed at Obama's transition team and the challenges and opportunities ahead for the incoming administration.


01/21/09--08:00: Highlights of IQPC's 10th Annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit - Jan 21,2009 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss speaks with Vanessa Lovatt—IQPC’s Lean Six Sigma Divisional Director and head of IQPC's 10th annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit—to discuss the major highlights of the four-day conference and the 2009 Process Excellence Awards.


01/29/09--07:00: Innovating Your Way through the Economic Crisis - Jan 29,2009 (chan 2962701)

Many experts agree that radical innovation is necessary to stay afloat in today’s turbulent economy. In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Rowan Gibson, global business strategist, expert on radical innovation and best-selling author of Innovation to the Core and Rethinking the Future, who discusses how an organization can balance its short-term needs with its long-term innovation goals, how to maintain employee engagement for innovation and how to keep up innovation program momentum despite the need to cut costs.


02/09/09--10:30: An Interview with the 2009 IQPC Process Excellence Awards Winning Team from JEA - Feb 09,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Lean Six Sigma Process Excellence Awards podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with IQPC's 2009 Process Excellence Awards winners Robert Growcock, Rod Hill, Heather Fontaine, Brian Hancher, and Greg Ravn from JEA. This JEA award-winning team received the Best Process Improvement in Service & Transaction Project Award under the Large Corporations Category. You will hear how they were compelled to initiate their project based on JEA’s desire to better serve its disadvantaged constituents in Jacksonville, Florida, who “could not keep up with the rising cost of energy,” and how the team was able to produce significant results for the affected community.


02/13/09--08:00: Virgin Media's Journey Towards Operational Excellence - Feb 13,2009 (chan 2962701)

Has your company taken the steps to achieve operational excellence? Are you only at the beginning of your journey? Well, Virgin Media is off to a good start with its mission of achieving operational excellence by initiating its very own Lean operations program. In this Profit through Process Podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Peter Evans, Quality Director for Virgin Media, who shares his company’s key takeaways for achieving operational excellence and discusses the compelling progress of Virgin’s operational program.


02/25/09--08:00: How Delphi Corporation Leveraged Conjoint Analysis to Produce Innovative and Award Winning Results - Feb 25,2009 (chan 2962701)

Want to hear about a powerful tool that can help you to produce innovative results within your organization? Conjoint analysis is that tool. If you are already familiar with this human behavioral model, then this Lean Six Sigma Process Excellence Awards podcast will help to show you how conjoint analysis can be applied to improving business processes. Genna Weiss speaks with Kris Stark and Hank Sanftleben from Delphi Electronics & Safety Division of Delphi Corporation, who discuss the ins and outs of conjoint analysis and show how they applied it to a project that won for Best Project Contributing to Innovation.


03/02/09--11:00: An Interview with Susan Huthmaker of SimplexGrinnell, IQPC's Deployment Leader of the Year - Mar 02,2009 (chan 2962701)

Increase your company’s employee engagement for process excellence on all levels! Susan Huthmaker, VP of Operational Excellence for SimplexGrinnell, a division of Tyco International, will tell you how. In this Lean Six Sigma Process Excellence Awards podcast, Huthmaker, the IQPC Deployment Leader of the Year, explains to Genna Weiss how SimplexGrinnell profited from her Lean Six Sixma deployment efforts.


03/06/09--10:30: Insight into Dominion's IQPC Award-Winning Improvement Program - Mar 06,2009 (chan 2962701)

Want to know how to achieve a best-in-class improvement program for your organization? Dominion can tell you how. In this Lean Six Sigma Process Excellence Awards podcast, Genna Weiss speaks with Kim Mueller, Director of Business Excellence for Dominion, who discusses how Dominion’s hard-earned efforts to stay on top operationally led them to achieve the 2008 IQPC Process Excellence Award for Best Improvement Program of the Year.


03/11/09--10:00: Lean Six Sigma--The Next Generation - Mar 11,2009 (chan 2962701)

Is your organization tired of the cumbersome nature of Six Sigma? Are you in need of simplicity for your continuous improvement efforts? How about trying Lean Six Sigma? In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with John Blowers to introduce how this methodology can cut down on your project time.


03/20/09--07:00: Meeting Customer Demand through Process Excellence: A Fleet Readiness Center South West Case Study - Mar 20,2009 (chan 2962701)

When the Fleet Readiness Center South West could not meet all the equipment needs of its customers, it took action. In this Lean Six Sigma Process Excellence Awards podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Lt. Dennis Narlock to discuss how he and his team—honorable mention winners for Best Project Contributing to Innovation—improved their process to meet customer demand, leading to staggering results throughout the organization.


03/25/09--10:00: What Obama's Economic Stimulus Bill Could Mean for Healthcare Improvement - Mar 25,2009 (chan 2962701)

Many would argue that the healthcare industry is “broken.” But by signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, President Obama has stepped up the effort to significantly cut out waste, reduce costs and improve efficiency and patient care. In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Six Sigma Master Black Belt Susan McGann, president and CEO of Pivotal Healthcare Solutions, LLC, who discusses how healthcare IT will lead to greater operational excellence within the industry and what this bill will mean for Lean and Six Sigma deployment efforts.


04/01/09--07:00: How Process Excellence Can Improve Your Order to Cash Management Needs - Apr 01,2009 (chan 2962701)

Get your customers to pay on time! In this Profit through Process Podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Sunita Bhagat, International Region Master Black Belt for Pitney Bowes Limited and featured speaker at IQPC’s 10th annual Process Excellence Summit, to discuss the steps you can take to deploy process excellence to improve your order to cash management needs in light of the turbulent economy.


04/07/09--10:00: Engineer Your Way to Increased Productivity of Your Sales Force - Apr 07,2009 (chan 2962701)

Learn how you can apply Six Sigma to your sales force to increase productivity! In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Justin Hitt, Strategic Relations Consultant for JWH Consolidated Inc., who discusses how Six Sigma and other engineering processes can help complement traditional methods of increasing selling productivity and establish accountable, consistent and measurable results for your sales person’s performance.


04/15/09--10:00: Achieving the Ultimate Improvement Cycle through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the TOC - Apr 15,2009 (chan 2962701)

Maximize your profit through a new and innovative process improvement model—the Ultimate Improvement Cycle. In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Bob Sproull, Lean Manager of Army Fleet Support and owner of Sproull Consulting, who discusses how he developed the Ultimate Improvement Cycle through the integration of Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints. You’ll learn how you can use this model to achieve breakthrough results for your improvement efforts.


05/06/09--10:00: A Wrap Up of IQPC's 10th Annual Process Excellence Summit and Awards - May 06,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks to Megan James, Summit Director for IQPC, who discusses the highlights of IQPC's 10th Annual Process Excellence Summit and Awards.


06/16/09--10:00: Structured Innovation—How Johnson & Johnson Makes It Work for the Organization - Jun 16,2009 (chan 2962701)

If you are looking for a structured innovation case study, then listen to this Profit through Process podcast. Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Drew Boyd, Director of Marketing Mastery at Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, who discusses how his organization is leveraging structured innovation to drive new product development and increased process efficiency. You will also hear how Johnson & Johnson has shaped its culture to accept structured innovation as a particular methodology within the organization.


07/07/09--07:00: How to Achieve an Award Winning Process Excellence Program—A Lloyd’s Register Case Study - Jul 07,2009 (chan 2962701)

Come listen to this Profit through Process podcast to hear how you can achieve an award-winning Process Excellence program. Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ will be speaking to Estelle Clark and Mark Bracey from Lloyd's Register to discuss how they transformed their organization into a Process Excellence powerhouse.


07/28/09--07:00: Avoiding the Traps of Organizational Politics: How to Ensure the Successful Delivery of Your BPE - Jul 28,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Profit podcast, learn how you can avoid the traps of organizational politics in order to successfully deliver your Business Process Excellence program. Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with David Bancroft-Turner, Chief Executive of The Academy for Political Intelligence, who discusses tips for better understanding your organizational politics.


11/03/09--07:00: Raising the Bar: How Seyfarth Shaw Provides Efficient Delivery of Legal Services through LSS - Nov 03,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Lisa Damon, partner and Chair of Seyfarth Shaw's Labor & Employment Department, and Carla Goldstein, Seyfarth Shaw’s Director of Strategic Management. Damon and Goldstein discuss how Seyfarth Shaw LLP has deployed Lean Six Sigma, adopted and rebranded as SeyfarthLean, to provide more efficient delivery of legal services for the firm.


11/03/09--12:00: Kaizen in Action: A Xerox and Sundyne Case Study - Nov 03,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Brian Eldredge, Sundyne Purchasing Manager, Brad Williams, Sundyne Supplier Quality Engineer, and Cyndi Quan-Trotter, Xerox Master Black Belt. You will hear how Xerox facilitated a Kaizen for Sundyne that allowed the latter organization to create a Lean office design for its print center that freed up more space at the same time that new equipment was installed. Learn how Xerox and Sundyne managed to accomplish this task in only 1.5 days.


11/05/09--07:30: Updates on the Department of Defense’s Lean Six Sigma Deployment Initiative - Nov 05,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with J.D. Sicilia, Lean Six Sigma Program Office Director for the Department of Defense. Sicilia will present updates on the DoD's program and will reveal the goals of the program for 2010 and beyond. Sicilia will be presenting at IDGA's Lean Six Sigma for Defense conference in December.


12/02/09--06:30: Design for Six Sigma Tools You Need to Know Right Now - Dec 02,2009 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Ali Fouani, a DFSS Master Black Belt. He will be discussing the Design for Six Sigma tools that will assist you with your product development under pressing economic conditions.


01/11/10--11:00: Xerox-Finalist in Best Improvement Program Category - Jan 11,2010 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Chuck Chada from Xerox to discuss the company's finalist recognition in the Best Improvment Program Category at IQPC's 11th Annual Process Excellence Awards.


05/19/10--06:00: Lean Six Sigma 101: Getting Your CFO to Buy-In - May 19,2010 (chan 2962701)

In this Profit throught Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Dave McSherry, CFO/COO of ACPO, who discusses strategies for getting your CFO to more fully support your Lean Six Sigma initiatives upon initial implementation.


07/21/10--10:00: A Conversation with the World’s First Lean Dentist - Jul 21,2010 (chan 2962701)

Genna Weiss of Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ will be speaking with Dr. Sami Bahri, co-founder of Bahri Dental Group, based in Jacksonville, Florida, and author of Follow the Learner: The Role of a Leader in Creating a Lean Culture.