During this 1-hour webinar, you’ll learn about some process improvement project bloopers and blunders and how we can learn from them. You can find the rest of the webinar materials and questions from the webinar here: https://goleansixsigma.com/webinar-avoid-process-improvement-bloopers-blunders/

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Presented by Tracy O’Rourke
Managing Partner & Executive Advisor
at GoLeanSixSigma.com
How to Avoid Process
Improvement
Bloopers & Blunders

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Our Expert: Tracy
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• Managing Partner & Executive
Advisor at GoLeanSixSigma.com
• 20 years of industry experience
• Began Process Improvement
career at GE as a Black Belt
• UCSD & SDSU Instructor:
Lean Enterprise and
Lean Six Sigma courses
• MBA from Pepperdine University
• BA in English Literature from
San Francisco State University

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Today’s Agenda
•What Project Bloopers & Blunders are
•Guidelines To Avoid Project Bloopers &
Blunders
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Definitions
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• Bloopers: Project mishaps related to
project selection
• Blunders: Project mishaps related to the
project approach

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Blooper #5
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The Wrong Stuff
The process is designed
more efficiently,
but now the customer
experience is worse.

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Blooper #4
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Passing The Buck
The project results
in gains for one
department but a
loss for another.

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Blooper #3
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My Little Pony – aka Pet Solution
The solution is
determined before
the project even
starts because
someone is using
Lean Six Sigma to
promote a personal
agenda/solution.

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Blooper #2
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The Fool’s Hero
The team declares
the project a
success but resulting
layoffs prove it’s a
hollow victory.

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Blooper #1
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Future Divorcee
The process
improvement project
selected is your
partner’s weight loss.

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Blooper Summary
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1. Future Divorcee
2. Fool’s Hero
3. My Little Pony
4. Passing The Buck
5. The Wrong Stuff
Poll – Which have you seen
occur the most frequently?

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Guidelines to Avoid Project Bloopers
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Use the project
selection tool
available at
GoLeanSixSigma
.com

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Guidelines Continued…
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Blunder #5
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End-Gamers
The team races
through half-hearted
data analysis and
jumps to solution
with low hopes of
success.

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Blunder #4
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Self-Proclaimed Super Hero
The Black Belt portrays
the team as needing a
hero, and he’s here to s
ave the day.

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Blunder #3
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Team Member Mishap
During solution
implementation, the
team discovers that
there’s nobody on the
team from the area
requiring the change.

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Blunder #2
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The Lone Wolf
The Team Lead
completes the Define,
Measure and Analyze
with little or no help
and waits until the
Improve phase to
involve others.

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Blunder #1
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Glory Hoarder
The Black Belt takes
all the credit for the
project success
while leaving the
hard-working team i
n the dark.

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Blunder Summary
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1. Glory Hoarder
2. The Lone Wolf
3. Team Member Mishap
4. Self-Proclaimed Super Hero
5. The End Gamers
Poll – Which have you seen
occur the most frequently?

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Guidelines to Avoid Project Blunders
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• Treat everyone with respect
• Be a coach not a hero
• Practice exemplary leadership
• Encourage and promote learning

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Summary List
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Top 5 Project Bloopers
1. Future Divorcee
2. Fool’s Hero
3. My Little Pony
4. Passing The Buck
5. The Wrong Stuff
Top 5 Project Blunders
1. Glory Hoarder
2. The Lone Wolf
3. Team Member Mishap
4. Self-Proclaimed Super Hero
5. The End Gamers

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Today We Covered
•What Project Bloopers & Blunders are
•Guidelines To Avoid Project Bloopers &
Blunders
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Q & A
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