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Useful Quality and Innovation Information
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Useful Sources of Information. American Society for Quality, ASQ. Seven Basic Quality Tools. An Excellent TRIZ site, The Triz Journal. Incose: What is Systems Engineering. Content to be added. Content to be added. Content to be added.
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Cost Reduction Approaches
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Cost - Get The Red Out. The Cost Foundation Basics. Describes how these cost drivers and actions relate to your EBIT and EVA. ALE maps your business needs to actions. Preferred Actions, see Cost Foundation Basics for why. W reduce the required man-years. M reduce the cost/man-year. Preferred Actions, see Cost Foundation Basics. C reduce relative complexity.
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Business Results Through Leadership
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Most important aspect of success. ALE's vast experience in leading product development can help you become more effective. Starting with philosophy and ending with practical forms and templates, we can help you plan, set and manage goals, improve morale (a big driver of effectiveness. Drive progress, and innovate ahead of the pack. Followers bought-in with hope, faith, and abundant energy. Access to unique know-how. And execute required actions. The " Art of War. Show ...
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Services that improve business results
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. ALE bridges to you the additional expertise needed to increase performance and lower cost. Where else can you target a 500% return on your investment? Processes: Create, simplify, remove steps and cost, and increase the speed and robustness of processes. Root-cause: Step beyond the popular but powerless approaches. Unlock innovation and creativity, while strongly leveraging your teams vast. Knowledge of technology. Kill bugs now before they cost too much. And how to re...
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Expected Results from Analytic and Leadership Excellence
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. HomeALE Services.Expected Results. Find over designed components that contribute less value. Reduce a 10% R&D budget by 10% and add 1% to your bottom line. Add market share by delivering on time with great quality. Excite demand and support higher profit margins with innovation. Prevent cost due to delays, quality concerns, and problems by 50%. Improve your organization's ability to produce products and services. No wasted fees, and better ROI.
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Textbooks useful for improving your organization and products
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. This list includes references that are viewed as being unique, particularly good, most practical, etcetera. Let us know if you believe something should be added either through our blog TheFulcrum, or by email. Art of War, Sun Tsu, Clearly translation. Anti-Patterns, Brown, Malveau, McCormic, Mowbray. The Fifth Discipline, Senge. The Sevem Mysteries of Life, Guy Murchie. The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil. Ancient Civilization, Jones. Mathematical Bioeconomics, Clark.
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Product Improvement Case Studies
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. These studies are aligned to the four benefits noted within the home page, though most efforts provide more than one type of benefit. Follow this link to ask questions about the studies, or to find the founder's profile and cirtifications, contact. Lower R&D Cost with fewer redesigns, process, root cause speed. Controlling Program Cost Run-Away. 500k/Y savings: simulation and automated testing *. 150k/Y savings: defect classification/ improvement processes *. An analys...
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Integrated Knowledge
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Definition of Integrated Knowledge and why it is important. Form, or united into a whole. wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn. Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Poet and playwright T.S. Eliot. Information is not knowledge."Frank Zappa". Threads of action that integrate: Leadership. Are holistic. They produce knowledge (best-practices) and specific sustainable results. Contrarily, the generic large program. Graphic compliments of Wikipedia.
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Context Of_Methods
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Methods must serve your goal to develop a product or service. Demystify the Methods Maze. Methods reside inside many frameworks. There are redundencies between frameworks. A big block approach is not Lean. A typical company may have 4 - 5 of such frameworks going. But will likely have a dominant few. The cost of aligning culture (training etc) is high. Camps" can get set up between OpEx and Developers. Start with your unique needs and Product Development Process.
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Controlling Your Product Development Spending Curve
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Analytic and Leadership Excellence. Controlling Your Program Spending Curve. See the case study. Complex High Density Electro-Mechanical Drives or Generators" for technical details. BLUE ARROW: The monthly cost chart shows a $3M program that had experienced a problem in the fifteenth month, indicating redesign. RED LINE: A 13% Budget Overrun is estimated. Resulting in 5% below budget for a 1567% ALE ROI. Budget Over Savings ALE ROI. B $3000 13% figures are $1000's. D $3000 -5% $510 1567% redesign Scenario.
