In our last post, we talked about how Business Process Management aligns people, processes, and technology to more effectively and efficiently address customer’s needs. However, in some cases a redesign of workflow, within and between enterprises, is the best way to ultimately cut cost and improve service. This approach is called Business Process Reengineering. We’ll now take a closer look at BPR and explain why it might be the path to help your organization cut costs and improve reliability.

While cutting cost has always been a principle of good business, consciously cutting an organization’s carbon footprint was not always a priority. But, amid growing environmental concerns, public and private organizations are seeking ways to reduce cost, reduce their environmental impact, and meet their customer’s needs. That’s where Green Sigma can help.

In our last blog posting, we highlighted the value of Lean as a very powerful methodology to eliminate waste in public sector supply chains. Now, we’ll take it one step further and introduce the Six Sigma DMAIC approach. The combination of Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) creates a robust “toolkit” that eliminates waste and variation.

In our last blog, we talked about how Strategic Alignment and Deployment (SA&D) creates a collaborative, end-to-end supply chain that links across all areas of an enterprise, resulting in a more efficiently-run operational process. As we continue our series on Operations Strategy, we’ll now take a look at performance measures and how they can best be used to define, measure, control, and improve operational performance.