Dr. Eric Cunningham is the dynamic Superintendent for Halifax County Schools in North Carolina. He’s got some inspiring insights on how to build problem solvers in education, and how he drives the use of process maps, fishbone diagrams and 5 Whys. He also discusses how to meet people where they are with process improvement. You […]
An interview with Michael Areola, who is a Product Development consultant and Agile Coach at Cenmic Management in Katy, Texas (near Houston). He uses Agile processes and frameworks to streamline development processes, increase team efficiency, drive collaboration and reduce wasted time. He worked in large organizations like SAP and Bank of America, as well as government agencies […]
Founders of the Lean Portland volunteer group held a call with other Lean and Six Sigma practitioners from Charlotte (NC) and Jacksonville (FL). They shared some background and a brief history of their group, along with recommendations for how others could set up their own volunteer group in their city. You can read the transcript […]
To get the job done, you need the right tools. Lean Six Sigma students at Wake Technical Community College, based in Raleigh, NC, are learning that JMP statistical discovery software from SAS is a tool well worth carrying in their kits. Wake Tech has been offering a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt […]
by Brion Hurley Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief nonprofit organization that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable, to help end hunger by 2030. They are working to help impact the UN SDG: Goal #2, Zero Hunger. Based on their implementation of lean, Six Sigma, systems thinking and engineering principles, they […]
Jess Orr, an experienced process improvement facilitator at Envision Solutions was asked to assist with a local nonprofit that worked to provide food and shelter to the homeless population. She met with the executive director and shelter operations manager, and determined that there was a critical need to standardize and document the daily homeless shelter […]
A premature lake, never heard of it? Michelle Woolfolk is a water resources engineer for the City of Durham, NC, who’s mission is to prevent eutrophication (algae blooms from water overly enriched with minerals and nutrients). Decomposing algae robs the water of oxygen, sometimes suffocating fish and causing the lake to age too quickly. Falls […]
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is aiming to creating a vast digital archive of mammalian species around the world, to serve as learning data base for children and adults alike. NCMNS and Smithsonian seek help of volunteers to distribute motion and heat-sensitive camera traps in different […]
Maryam Zahabi, an industrial engineer at North Carolina State University, uses JMP® to analyze designed experiments that gauge the effects of on-road signage and in-vehicle technologies on driver attention allocation among both civilian drivers and police officers. Visual stimuli both from inside and outside a vehicle are responsible for hundreds of distracted driving deaths each year. […]
Simon King, a statistics teacher at Cary Academy in central North Carolina, a private school for grades 6-12, decided to start using statistical software in his classroom. King believes JMP should, and could, be used in classrooms everywhere, both private and public: “JMP makes it affordable. It’s cheaper than textbooks. It’s priced ridiculously competitively. It’s […]