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Webinars & Videos|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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Presentation Slides|
How to Use RPA & AI to Hyper-automate Your Processes: Drive Productivity Up and Costs Down
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Restoring Healthcare Supply Chains Before a COVID-19 Second Wave
Healthcare organizations shouldn't restore supply chains to pre-pandemic levels; rather, they should focus on greater cost effective and efficient operations. In this session…
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Presentation Slides|
Redesign Your Process Audits: Link with Strategy and Improve your Maturity
Process audits are a norm in most industries and geographies; they are done for an array of reasons including, statutory requirements and internally for management assurance…
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Articles|
RPA Fundamentals with Slalom Consulting
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Healthcare organizations shouldn't restore supply chains to pre-pandemic levels; rather, they should focus on greater cost effective and efficient operations. In this session…
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Process audits can be a helpful approach for evaluating performance and evolving maturity. However, many process audits are transactional and disconnected from organizational…
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Tools & Templates|
Lean Technique: A3 Problem Solving Template
A-3 is a step-by-step template for applying plan-do-check-act, also known as PDCA or the Deming cycle. The name comes from the standard international paper size A-3, which is…
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Reports & White Papers|
COVID-19 Organizational Survival Guide
Along with the rising humanitarian toll, COVID-19 and its myriad impacts are undeniably going to shape businesses and economies around the world for years and even decades to…
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A manufacturing organization wanted to move to a more innovative and collaborative operating model, but its complex data environment made it a challenge to gain a holistic…
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This article looks specifically at the intersection between purpose of the organization’s analytics program and the analysis for select business functions. Each page in the…
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Infographics|
Improve Your Procurement Processes
Process improvement is the key to unlock more strategic procurement. Read this infographic for some tips on continually improving procurement processes including some…
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Articles|
Procurement Improvement Begins with Process
Process improvement is the key to unlock more strategic procurement. Two sources of major change have combined to create a perfect storm around the procurement function…
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