Forrest W. Breyfogle III

Forrest Breyfogle III (born 1946) is a management consultant,[1] the CEO of consultant and training company Smarter Solutions, Inc. He was the developer of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system.[2] Breyfogle is an American Society for Quality (ASQ) fellow[3][2] and has received awards for his contributions to the techniques of Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma and business process management. Breyfogle served on the board of advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence.[2]

Forrest Breyfogle III
Born
OccupationCEO, Smarter Solutions, Inc.; management consultant
Known forSix Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE)

Biography

Breyfogle graduated from the University of Missouri–Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) with a BS in mechanical engineering and began working for IBM. While working at IBM, Breyfogle returned to school and earned an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.[4] He founded Smarter Solutions in 1992.[5] Breyfogle is an Affiliate Instructor at Weatherhead School of Management (part of Case Western Reserve University).[6]

Professional career

Breyfogle made significant contributions to the fields of Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma, business process management, process improvement, and operational excellence. He is the author of over a dozen books[1][7] and a contributing author for multiple publications, including Business Finance Mag,[8] Quality Digest,[9] Quality Magazine,[10] and the Project Management Hut.[11] Since 2003,[12] Breyfogle has written articles for ASQ’s Quality Progress that are about the IEE value chain and 30,000-foot-level reporting.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma

Breyfogle was awarded the ASQ Crosby Medal in 2004[25] in recognition of his book, Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd edition, in which he used a "cutting-edge approach to traditional Six Sigma methodologies."[26] Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd edition (along with Integrated Enterprise Excellence: Improvement Project Execution: A Management and Black Belt Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard) is referenced in the Lean Six Sigma Body of Knowledge, and is noted as a source for further information for the Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.[27] Lean & Six Sigma World Organization includes Breyfogle on its list of the top twenty authorities on Lean & Six Sigma.[28]

Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE)

Breyfogle developed a system called Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE)[29] with the three Rs of business in mind  doing the Right things, doing them Right, at the Right Time.[30][31] He has stated that IEE "provides a framework for integrating Business Process Management with Enterprise Process Management."[1] Breyfogle wrote a series of books focused on IEE.[32] In a review of the first book, business management author and analyst Paul Harmon commented that Breyfogle had made a major effort to integrate different process traditions and that he is a leader in doing so at all levels of work.[33] The third book in the series has been described as "an excellent reference book" for Measurement system analysis.[34]
In 2009, Procurement Insights blogger, author, and BlogTalkRadio host Jon Hansen[35] wrote a white paper in which he noted that "Breyfogle’s [IEE] approach represents both an innovative and important breakthrough in business process improvement methodology".[29]

Awards and recognition

  • Lean & Six Sigma World Organization: Leadership Award (2013)[28][32]
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology: Alumni Achievement Award Recipient (2012)[36]
  • Quality Magazine: Quality Professional of the Year (2011)[37]
  • Lean & Six Sigma World Organization: Best Speaker Award (2010)[28]
  • American Society for Quality: Crosby Medal (2004)[25]

References

  1. Breyfogle III, Forrest W. (9 September 2013). "Taking BPM concepts to the next level: Interview with Smarter Solution's Forrest Breyfogle". Process Excellence Network. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. "Dinner Meeting with special guest Forrest Breyfogle". ASQ St. Louis. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  3. "News Digest: ASQ Fellows Announced". Quality Digest. Quality Digest. 2000. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. Diesing, Genevieve (31 March 2011). "Quality Management: Ask the Right Questions". Quality Magazine. BNP Media. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  5. "Forrest Breyfogle III". The University of Texas at Austin Engineering Executive Education. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  6. "Executive Education: Instructors: Forrest Breyfogle". Weatherhead School of Management. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  7. "Forrest W. Breyfogle". Amazon. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  8. "Author Bio: Forrest W. Breyfogle III". Business Finance Mag. Penton. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  9. "Content by Forrest Breyfogle  New Paradigms". Quality Digest. Quality Digest. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  10. "Forrest Breyfogle". Quality Magazine. BNP Media. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  11. "Contributors". The Project Management Hut. PM Hut. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  12. Breyfogle III, Forrest (November 2003). "Control Charting at the 30,000-Foot-Level". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  13. Breyfogle III, Forrest (November 2004). "Control Charting at the 30,000-Foot-Level, Part 2". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  14. Breyfogle III, Forrest (November 2005). "Control Charting at the 30,000-Foot-Level, Part 3". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  15. Breyfogle III, Forrest (November 2006). "Control Charting at the 30,000-Foot-Level". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  16. Breyfogle III, Forrest (February 2009). "Control and Grow Your Enterprise: The right business measurements and controls benefit the whole company". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  17. Breyfogle III, Forrest (January 2010). "Insight or Folly?: Resolve issues with process capability indexes, business metrics". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  18. Breyfogle III, Forrest (January 2011). "Integrating Inputs: A system to capture and react to VOC data can pay dividends". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  19. Breyfogle III, Forrest (January 2012). "Inputs Into Action: 9 steps to a better VOC-initiated improvement project". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  20. Breyfogle III, Forrest (December 2012). "No Specification? No Problem". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  21. Breyfogle III, Forrest (December 2013). "The Best of Both Methods: Combining business process management and lean Six Sigma". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  22. Breyfogle III, Forrest (December 2014). "Understanding the Data: A way to convert a numbers table to automatically generated predictive report-outs". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  23. Breyfogle III, Forrest (December 2015). "High Vantage Point: Report-outs to reduce the risk of organizational problems". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  24. Breyfogle III, Forrest (January 2017). "Monitor and Manage: Diabetes measurement tracking at the 30,000 foot level". Quality Progress. ASQ. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  25. "Crosby Medalists". ASQ. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  26. "Forrest Breyfogle – Founder Member of American Society for Lean Six Sigma". American Society for Lean Six Sigma. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  27. "References – Six Sigma Black Belt Certification – CSSBB". ASQ.org. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  28. "Introducing the first six of the world's Top-Twenty authorities on Lean & Six Sigma". LSSWorld.org. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  29. Hansen, Jon (29 January 2009). "The Key Principles behind the Integrated Enterprise Excellence Methodology White Paper". Knowledge Leadership. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  30. "Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System" (PDF). ASQ. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  31. Miller, Evan (15 December 2008). "Enabling Integrated Enterprise Excellence…". Hertzler Systems Inc. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  32. Dager, Joe. "Trumpet of Smarter Solutions". Business 901. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  33. Harmon, Paul (April 2013). "A BPTrends Book Review: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System" (PDF). Business Process Trends. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  34. Haynes, Rick (10 September 2013). "How to Understand a Measurement System Analysis". Quality Digest. Quality Digest. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  35. "A Welcome to Procurement Insights". Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  36. Stoltz, Mary Helen (3 October 2012). "Missouri S&T to present awards during homecoming banquet". Missouri S&T. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  37. "An Interview With Quality's Professional of the Year". Quality Magazine. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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