Author Archive: Michael Bremer
Michael Bremer is President of The Cumberland Group – Chicago, an Adjunct Senior Engagement Manager for Motorola University, and lecturer for the University of Chicago and Loyola University. He is a nationally recognized speaker on six sigma, process improvement, lean manufacturing, leadership, and leadership team effectiveness. He has over 25 years experience including director of the information systems group for a Fortune 25 company, former Chief Financial Officer for the Association of Manufacturing Excellence and President of several new business start-ups. He was responsible for creating a global based continuous improvement process for a conglomerate that owned more than 400 separate profit centers. This was one of the models used to establish the Baldrige Quality Award criteria. Michael initially studied quality improvement with Dr. Deming and Dr. Juran in the early 1980s.
The Missing Link: Driving Improvement Results to the P&L
Look at performance improvement initiatives implemented around the world over the last twenty years like TQM, Cost of Quality, Time Based Management, Supply Chain Management, etc. and listen to the noise level inside organization. The two most popular business performance improvement methodologies today are Lean Enterprise/ Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Unless something different gets done [...]
6 Problems with Performance Metrics
How many people inside your organization would say, “We have the best performance measurement system; we learn so much from it!” Or might they say something else? Consider the popular expression, “What you measure is what you get.” As my four-year old son once said, “Is dis true?” It is to some degree, but not [...]
