Recent surveys indicate that workers have reached an epidemic level of anxiety, stress, and have more work than hours necessary to do it. They are worried about demands placed on them, the accel...
Set achievable goals. And with those goals, provide the tools, resources and authority required to attain them. When goals are set but the means to reach them are unavailable, many managers su...
In an attempt to maximize quality, many companies have recently implemented the principles of Six Sigma, a quality-assurance strategy. Essentially, Six Sigma means a company tries to make err...
On Saturday, May 12, 2001 DCG hosted the Fourth Annual USA Memoriad (Memory Championship) in New York City. The USA Memoriad is an Olympiad for ‘thinking’ games. Tony Dottino teamed up with T...
As a client developer for DCG, I come into contact with many varied companies around the country and it never ceases to amaze me that different industries and companies have similar problems. A ...
Jennifer Walsh interviewing Alan Homyk, Director Environment Health and Safety, Con Edison.
The benchmarking event was originally started as a forum for our clients to share their progress with one another. The results were so astounding that we opened it up to a select group of pros...
I had the distinguished honor of attending DCG’s Benchmarking Session on May 14, 2001. To say I was impressed is a gross understatement. Tony Dottino, president of DCG, left a successful caree...
“Fantastic!” “Exhilarating!” “Enlightening!” “Thought provoking!” Superlatives being hurled about Broadway’s Producers or a blockbuster movie? Guess again! These were some of the c...
Consolidated Edison, the utility serving New York City and its environs, is in the third year of an extremely successful process improvement implementation using Process Innovation Through Tea...
All right, so ConEd has saved millions with process improvement. Obviously the company’s executives and managers love it, but what do the workers think?
Change Smart = BrainSmart
If you ask Dennis Collins, the VP and General Manager of three radio stations for Jefferson Pilot in South Florida, what his main job is, he will tell you. “I’m...
It has been an extraordinary year since our last DCG Benchmarking session. A key lesson that has emerged from this testing year is that with dedication, focus and commitment, worker...
So Where Did Six Sigma Really Start?
The day’s opening speaker provided an interesting insight to the origin of one of today’s business crazes. In 1982 B...
What is PITT and BrainSmart Leader?
PITT ™ is a sustainable, implementable and measurable process utilizing the experiences and knowledge of the peop...
As more than a casual observer of the PITT process, I have come to appreciate its value as I have directly seen its results – results that engage employees ar...
If DCG’s Benchmarking Session on April 15th reached only one person, it would have been worthwhile. Fortunately, we know that this one person was reached many times over at this ...
On Saturday, April 13, 2002 ConEdison hosted the Fifth Annual USA Memory Championship, an Olympiad for ‘thinking’ games, at their corporate headquarters in New York. US Founder and ...
For some time now business leaders in the U.S. have been deploying process improvement programs to improve their effectiveness in an increasingly competitive, global marketplace. Often this wo...
The afternoon topics of the event will be covered in this issue. Starting off was Regina Gramola of NYCT-CPM, last year’s host, who introduced a job order cost team. The significant point was ...
Old, New and BIG
As Director of Leadership Development for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), I've spent the past two years designing a ...
On 9/11 we were all collectively hit – but how you deal with this blow is what separates the “men from the boys”. Either you lay down on the canvas, beaten and afraid to get up, ...
Robyn Bradshaw is a Process Manager for Bond International Software, Inc., an international software company that develops, markets, sells and supports Adapt, the Staffing Industry’s leadin...
“It was awesome…the best event I’ve ever attended…I can’t wait until next year’s,” said Anne Kelly, Director of the Federal Consulting Bureau in Washington, DC. No, she wasn’t referring to the...
Richard D. Fox, Executive Director of Stamford Housing Authority, provided some legitimate “razzle dazzle” through a series of revealing charts and graphs across the 40 foot stage. Step by ste...
Anne Kelly, Director of the Federal Con$ulting Group was a presenter at the event, along with Marilyn Wiles, Chief Operating Officer, who’s topic focused on process changes that they are begin...
Jim Woodward, Executive Director of Health Med, and his presentation of “How Toxins Affect the Mind and the Body” was not only enlightening, but a stunner! At the workplace, toxins can cause d...
Consolidated Edison provided a stellar segment. Alan Homyk, Director of Environmental Health and Safety, presented results of a major project they had on a critical business process involving ...
One of the outstanding presentations lauded by fellow presenters was for Nick Amadori, Senior Vice President from UST who highlighted, “Nutritional Learning”…so well digested by the gathering....
On Saturday, March 1, 2003 ConEdison hosted the Sixth Annual USA Memory Championship at their corporate headquarters in New York City.
We need leadership more than ever. Mergers, acquisitions, threats of terrorism, and lack of role models quickly zap our passion to engage fully, in work and in life. At what cost to you? Energ...
