Some enterprises pursue data for data’s sake, building elaborate data collection systems that effectively protect the user from their customer, but provide little or no additional value to the business.
According to Evan Miller, President & CEO of Hertzler Systems, “The Data Driven Organization is in sharp contrast to most businesses. Many business leaders don’t realize that they can have it both ways: high value data at low cost. While there may be an infinite number of ways companies fall short of being data driven, our experience is that they fall into three broad camps.â€
Miller asserts that some organizations gain high value from their data, but pay way too much for the knowledge. This is typical of many Six Sigma companies. Six Sigma companies, for the most part, understand listening to the Voice of the Process better than many other organizations. They apply proven, disciplined techniques of project management and statistical problem solving to get to the bottom of chronic, entrenched problems. Payback from these programs is huge.
However, many Six Sigma Black Belts spend an inordinate amount of time scrubbing and massaging data in order to get something useful. Miller refers to this effort as the Six Sigma Data Shuffle.
A third data nightmare has the worst of both worlds: they pay a high price for data, but have almost nothing to show for their efforts. This is typical of mature organizations with a long tradition of inspecting quality into a product. These businesses may have enormous file cabinets full of hand-written data sheets. Data are written on an inspection sheet and then filed away.
Hertzler Systems (www.hertzler.com) provides seamless, accurate data acquisition solutions that drive business transformation. The company provides the leading real-time data acquisition and analytics software, the GainSeeker Suite. This powerful and flexible system is best used by lean and progressive companies. Gainseeker Suite allows companies to connect with devices and other information systems, collecting data and alarming key personnel when problems arise; this technology allows organizations to analyze data for root cause problems, converting data into knowledge.
Hertzler Systems has been a leader in Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma for over twenty years, and includes a diverse customer base in
service, transactional and manufacturing environments; clients include BAE Systems, Crown Audio, IDEX Corporation, McCormick & Company, Inc., Hormel Foods Corporation, Titleist & Footjoy, and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Worldwide. The company’s software and
services enable clients to collect and analyze data; building a robust data infrastructure for making data-driven decisions. These capabilities help clients to reduce costs, cycle time and errors, and increase profitability.
Hertzler Systems Inc.www.hertzler.comAdrienne DePewCommunications Manager[email protected]800.958.2709�
