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Business Intelligence Core Practices for Operational Excellence Spot the Opportunity The 8 Lean Wastes Continuous improvement seeks to improve every process by focusing on enhancing the activities that generate the most value for our customer while removing as many waste activities as possible Our Core Practices are designed to focus on what we can do to achieve Operational Excellence Process waste and inefficiency is all around us we have an easy way to identify them by using the acronym DOWNTIME DMAIC Six Sigma Problem Solving Defects Mistakes that require additional time resources and money to fix Overproduction Executing processes or tasks when they are not needed or ready yet Waiting When work stops Needing approval technical issues can cause this Non Utilized Talent Not recognizing or maximizing talent that we have in the workforce Transportation Value Creation We align to Emerson Strategic and Tactical plans to ensure that we are focused on delivering value back to the business Moving things around Physically in factory or email traffic in the office 1 Define Scope the opportunity have a clear problem statement and objective for what you want to achieve 2 Measure Establish the process and baseline the performance Identify key metrics Validate measurement systems Inventory 3 Analyze Having more data in a process than is needed Key variables that have the most impact on process performance Determine the root causes Motion Physically in the office or factory or processes not streamlined Excess Processing Unnecessary effort which adds no value production or communication 4 Improve Options and solutions Plot solutions until the requirements are satisfied 5 Control Time to implement Handover to process owner and monitor the results Don t be afraid to go back if the solution needs refining