RBA - Rosebank Business Association

Best Practices Advocacy News Letter

Dear leaders and learners for lean transformation,

Welcome to our June 2010 issue of, "The Competitive Edge - Best Practices Advocacy News Letter". Productivity Solutions brings you current events and a selection of articles from around the world once a month on best practices. The latest news letter has been uploaded to the Free Downloads Section under Resources menu on our website.

I am pleased to announce that Productivity Institute will soon be launching Lean-Six Sigma Certification programmes (check our website regularly to find out more). We endeavour to run these certification programmes both as public workshops and in-house and will be run by qualified Black Belts and Master Black Belts.

We have also been busy listening to our customers and hence changing our website address to www.pslglobal.net to make it easy for everyone to remember and also align naturally with our company name (You may recall that the previous website address was the reverse of our company name).

Upcoming Lean Thinking Events:

1. Your last Chance to register for Lean-MBA (Lean Management Business Architecture) 1-day Workshop 13th July 2010 - Those who are interested in finding out what's required for successfully managing of Lean implementation are requested to attend this workshop. This is a high-level workshop suitable for manager and above. Hurry - only a few seats are Left. Costs: $299+GST only. Full details of the workshop can be found by clicking here. To register your places send an email to info@pslglobal.net. 50% of the proceeds will be donated to Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust (Westpac Helicopter Rescue).
2. 3rd Lean Thinkers' Networking Event 2010 - 17th August. Free to attend. Register by emailing to info@pslglobal.net
   Topics and Facilitators (a brief presentation followed by discussions):
   a) Application of Lean & Six Sigma in Service Industry - by Raylene Holder, Performance Excellence Deployment Leader, Avis-Budget Group
   b) The Ford Way - Experiences of working with Ford Motors by Justin Guy, Process Improvement Specialist, Life Technologies
3. Lean Study Mission to Japan - Get ready to fly to Japan in November 2010 to learn from the birth place of TPS / Lean with Enna Corporation. Click on the "Experience Lean in Japan" banner on our home page for further details. Register now to avoid disappointment. Contact Vishnu to make a booking

This months picks (articles of interest)

• 5S-Learning to ask Why? By Mark Rosenthal - The purpose of 5S is not to clean up the shop. The purpose is to make it easier to stand in your chalk circle and see what is really happening. The purpose is to begin to ask "Why?"
• The Economic argument for "re-shoring" manufacturing jobs back to the US - by Dean Franck, Harry C. Moser, Marius Ronge - an interesting article and these economics equally apply to NZ businesses too
• The Pareto Principle - Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch - Leveraging 80-20 rule to remain competitive and sustainable during recession
• Microsoft Case Study - Marketing ROI Culture by Melany McGuffin - using 3 pronged approach - "Show Tangible Results", "Change Management" and "Framework"

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