Forrest W. Breyfogle III
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Forrest W. Breyfogle III (born 1946) is the author of eleven books and over 90 articles on the topic of quality improvement. He is the President and CEO of Smarter Solutions, Inc.; and the winner of the 2005 American Society for Quality
Crosby Medal for his book, Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd edition (ISS2). The Crosby Medal is presented to the individual who has authored a distinguished book contributing significantly to the extension of the philosophy and application of the principles, methods, or techniques of quality management.
A professional engineer, Breyfogle is also a member of the board of advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performing Excellence. Smarter Solutions, Inc. provides business measurement and improvement consultation and education for organizations worldwide.
His latest work (2008) is the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) suite, a set of four books that document an enhanced system for effective enterprise management in the 21st century, based on the integration of best practices from previous tools and techniques and the application of innovative analytical methodology. The introductory book provides an overview of IEE methods, tools and techniques–and how they creatively integrate the best practices of established business measurement and improvement systems.
A three volume series completes the set of four texts:
ISBN 978-1-934454-12-1 ISBN 1-934454-12-5 168 pages, hardcover. Four golfing friends discuss improvement systems. They improve their games in both business and golf using IEE concepts, going beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced scorecard.
ISBN 978-1-934454-15-2 ISBN 1-934454-15-X 560 pages, hardcover. An IEE system creation manual for leaders and implementation teams. Describes an enterprise measurement, analysis, and improvement system where organizations transition from firefighting toward the three R’s of business: everyone doing the right things and doing them right at the right time.
ISBN 978-1-934454-16-9 ISBN 1-934454-16-8 1200 pages, hardcover. An IEE system implementation handbook for the improvement project manager. Provides a detailed step-by-step project roadmap which integrates Six Sigma and Lean tools.
Selected bibliography and sources
American Society for Quality
American Society for Quality , formerly known as American Society for Quality Control , is a knowledge-based global community of quality control experts, with nearly 85,000 members dedicated to the promotion and advancement of quality tools, principles, and practices in their workplaces and in...
Crosby Medal for his book, Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd edition (ISS2). The Crosby Medal is presented to the individual who has authored a distinguished book contributing significantly to the extension of the philosophy and application of the principles, methods, or techniques of quality management.
A professional engineer, Breyfogle is also a member of the board of advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performing Excellence. Smarter Solutions, Inc. provides business measurement and improvement consultation and education for organizations worldwide.
His latest work (2008) is the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) suite, a set of four books that document an enhanced system for effective enterprise management in the 21st century, based on the integration of best practices from previous tools and techniques and the application of innovative analytical methodology. The introductory book provides an overview of IEE methods, tools and techniques–and how they creatively integrate the best practices of established business measurement and improvement systems.
Recent (2008) works
- The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement ISBN 978-1-934454-11-4 ISBN 1-934454-11-7 216 pages, paperback. An introductory overview of the highlights of the IEE system and how it relates to previous improvement systems.
A three volume series completes the set of four texts:
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. I The Basics: Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
ISBN 978-1-934454-12-1 ISBN 1-934454-12-5 168 pages, hardcover. Four golfing friends discuss improvement systems. They improve their games in both business and golf using IEE concepts, going beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced scorecard.
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. II Business Deployment: A Leaders' Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
ISBN 978-1-934454-15-2 ISBN 1-934454-15-X 560 pages, hardcover. An IEE system creation manual for leaders and implementation teams. Describes an enterprise measurement, analysis, and improvement system where organizations transition from firefighting toward the three R’s of business: everyone doing the right things and doing them right at the right time.
- Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. III Improvement Project Execution: A Management and Black Belt Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
ISBN 978-1-934454-16-9 ISBN 1-934454-16-8 1200 pages, hardcover. An IEE system implementation handbook for the improvement project manager. Provides a detailed step-by-step project roadmap which integrates Six Sigma and Lean tools.
Selected bibliography and sources
- “A Design and Test Roundtable–Six Sigma: Moving Towards Perfect Products”, 1991, IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Los Alamitos, CA, June, pp. 88–89.
- ”Process Improvement with Six Sigma”, 1992, Wescon/92 Conference Record, Western Periodicals Company, Ventura, CA, pp. 754–756.
- Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing, 1992, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
- Managing Six Sigma: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Assessing,and Implementing the Strategy that Yields Bottom-Line Success, 2001, Wiley, New York.
- Wisdom on the Green: Smarter Six Sigma Business Solutions, 2001, Smarter Solutions, Inc., Austin, TX.
- Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions using Statistical Methods, Second edition, 2003, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
- “Control Charting at the 30,000-footlevel: Separating special-cause events from common-cause variability”, 2003, Quality Progress, November pp. 67–70.
- “Control Charting at the 30,000-footlevel, Part 2”, 2004, Quality Progress, Nov. pp. 85–87.
See also
- Design for Six SigmaDesign for Six SigmaDesign for Six Sigma is a separate and emerging business-process management methodology related to traditional Six Sigma. While the tools and order used in Six Sigma require a process to be in place and functioning, DFSS has the objective of determining the needs of customers and the business, and...
- Lean manufacturingLean manufacturingLean manufacturing, lean enterprise, or lean production, often simply, "Lean," is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination...
- Lean Six SigmaLean Six SigmaIn recent years, some practitioners have combined Six Sigma ideas with lean manufacturing to yield a methodology named Lean Six Sigma. Lean manufacturing – addressing process flow and waste issues – and Six Sigma, with its focus on variation and design, are viewed as complementary disciplines in...
- Process improvementProcess improvementIn organizational development , process improvement is a series of actions taken by a process owner to identify, analyze and improve existing business processes within an organization to meet new goals and objectives. These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to create...
- Statistical process controlStatistical process controlStatistical process control is the application of statistical methods to the monitoring and control of a process to ensure that it operates at its full potential to produce conforming product. Under SPC, a process behaves predictably to produce as much conforming product as possible with the least...
- Six SigmaSix SigmaSix Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986. , it is widely used in many sectors of industry.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and...
- UptimeUptimeUptime is a measure of the time a machine has been up without any downtime.It is often used as a measure of computer operating system reliability or stability, in that this time represents the time a computer can be left unattended without crashing, or needing to be rebooted for administrative or...
- IEEIEEIEE may stand for:* Integrated Enterprise Excellence, an Industrial Engineering system documented in books by Forrest W. Breyfogle III* Institution of Electrical Engineers, in engineering, now part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology...