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		<title>Reviving Healthcare &#8211; An Article Review</title>
		<link>http://www.sixsigmatrainingconsulting.com/leading-six-sigma/1707/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Article Review] This article talks about Don Berwick M.D. who is being considered to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. Through his work at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement he has advanced quality in healthcare.]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Malcolm Baldridge Award Recipients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Website shows the latest winner of the 2009 Malcolm Baldridge Awards.]]></description>
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		<title>Article Review &#8211; Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong (WSJ)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a friend sent me this article "Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong" from the Wall Street Journal. The author seems to feel that most Lean Six Sigma projects fail, but has some very interesting lessons learned.

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		<title>System Reformers of the Health Care Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a reading an article titled “The “Third School” for Controlling Health Care Costs?”[1] and I found it very exciting to read. In it, he talks about “System Reformers” that once were focused on improving Quality and now are focused on Quality and controlling costs. I have worked in manufacturing for years and our Quality Organizations were just that focused on “Improving Quality”. In today’s world that has changed for the better with the coming of Six Sigma a process focused on improving quality and reducing costs. I believe these reformers Altman talks about are the same.]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks Recent Success using Lean 6 Sigma</title>
		<link>http://www.sixsigmatrainingconsulting.com/success-stories/service-industry-success-stories/starbucks-recent-success-using-lean-6-sigma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service Industry Success Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This recent article show how a service organization can be successful appling Six Sigma to their processes. Here Starbucks focused on just one of the seven types of waste &#8220;Motion&#8221; of the operator. I bet that this did not only impact the bottom line by decreasing the wait time for each customer but it let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare of the Future Conference To Be Held in Tucson on October 13, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Society for Quality (ASQ) will sponsor a one-day conference to provide Arizona-based healthcare organizations with a forum to learn about and discuss the vast number of changes impacting the healthcare industry today.  The conference “Healthcare of the Future – Are you ready?” will feature presentations by healthcare and business experts including: Brad Tritle, Executive Director of the Arizona Health-e Connection, David Dexter, CEO of Sonora Quest, Andres Theodorou, MD of UMC, Daisy Jenkins, VP Human Resources, Raytheon, Thomas Pyzdek, noted author of the Six Sigma Handbook, and many more.]]></description>
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		<title>The Honeywell Experience*</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a chemical plant in Europe, Honeywell was losing profits at approximately $900,000 per year. The problems appeared related to a need to simplify the process flow.The problem studied and a new process implemented.]]></description>
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		<title>Process Improvement at BOC Edwards*</title>
		<link>http://www.sixsigmatrainingconsulting.com/success-stories/manufacturing/process-improvement-at-boc-edwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During economic downturns, chip manufacturers must walk a fine line between balancing costs and providing high quality product. In this industry, sophisticated processes use specialty gases and chemicals to fabricate semiconductor devices that must be consistently pure to avoid costly yield failures. BOC Edwards, a supplier of these gases, wanted to decrease costs while still maintaining high quality product.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bug and the Slurry: Bacterial Control in Aqueous Products:*</title>
		<link>http://www.sixsigmatrainingconsulting.com/success-stories/manufacturing/the-bug-and-the-slurry-bacterial-control-in-aqueous-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren/Amplex Superabrasives had a problem at one of its Asian customers—a high capacity manufacturer of data storage disks. Their customer reported a problem in the polycrystalline diamond (PCD) slurry they were being supplied was clogging the filtering processes. To compound the problem, a film of unknown origin was appearing after the clean-up step from texturing.]]></description>
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		<title>Other Healthcare Successes:</title>
		<link>http://www.sixsigmatrainingconsulting.com/success-stories/healthcare/other-healthcare-successes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bersbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bersbach Consulting LLC provides Six Sigma training coaching and support across Arizona, including the Tucson, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Glendale areas. At this time we would like to thank our friends and clients for their support. If you have landed here looking for our Six Sigma training, coaching or support services in Tucson, then please follow [...]]]></description>
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