The way organizations approach strategic challenges greatly determines their level of success or failure. Senior leaders are looking for the right results. Process owners and project leaders are challenged to initiate and prioritize new projects on a daily basis. What is needed is organizational alignment around the vital few projects that will actually solve strategic challenges at both the enterprise and project level.
The Performance Excellence Network, SE Region, is pleased to welcome Edwin Boon, owner of the Rendement Group and formerly of Dun & Bradstreet, Hertz, GE and more recently Sleep Number, to our May 3 Rochester breakfast discussion: “The Metric of Urgency: Making an Emotional Connection to Drive Organizational Urgency.”
Systematic Problem Solving or SPS (based on the principles of Lean Six Sigma) moves organizations from the widely-accepted but ad hoc practice of executing too many projects and achieving low impact into a systematic process of executing on the vital few projects that will deliver breakthrough change expressed in terms of process performance and financial results that clearly help the organization overcome any strategic challenge.
How does SPS do it? SPS is a powerful systems approach to link strategic needs to operational execution through the use of key metrics, with the purpose of delivering meaningful impact. SPS can be integrated into any continuous improvement framework. The key to SPS is to identify a leading process indicator called the Metric of Urgency to make an emotional connection to drive organizational urgency.
Join Edwin Boon and learn how to select the key metrics that deliver change that matters. Explore problem statements, leading and lagging metrics and how your organization can stay focused on the vital few projects.
The discussion is at Woodlake Meeting Center, 210 Woodlake Dr, Rochester, MN (details provided after registration). Continental breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 7:45 with the presentation from 7:45 to 9:00 am. No cost for members; $30 for non-members. To register, contact [email protected].
Livestreaming and video-on-demand are now also available ($20 member, $40 non-member; free for Premium/Sponsoring Members). Please contact [email protected] for more information and for the link to register/view.
