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Elizabeth Cobau

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Living Our Mission: Continuous Improvement For Continuous Improvers

Improving Products And Services Around The Globe Every Day To Make Life Better If you knew Dorian Shainin, you likely heard him say “Some information needed to make a product both right and reliable isn’t in the textbooks. It’s in the parts.” From his days at United Aircraft to his retirement from Shainin, Dorian’s passion …

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How To Boost Your ROI With A Foolproof Project Selection Strategy

Being a leader means juggling countless projects, strategically allocating teams and resources, and working to achieve exponentially better performance over time. It’s exhausting–almost by definition. We get that. And we want to help. That’s why we developed processes that will help you choose the right projects for your team. This strategy ensures your team works on the …

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Five steps to Win the World Cup of Problem Solving

A clandestine meeting between engineers in a darkened parking lot hastens the exchange and dissection of malfunctioning parts. A family legacy unites a team to achieve a goal a quarter of a century old. An overturned strategy and a come-from-behind solution bring a six-year-long problem to a permanent and climactic close.

Here’s the 5 steps to win the problem solving world cup and solve long-term problems.

Dorian Awards Criteria

Master of the year Award

The Master of the Year Award is for leaders who have increased the impact of problem solving using Shainin technologies within their organization.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Applies leadership skills to expand the impact of Red X technologies within the organizatio
  • Results including projects completed that made a significant impact to improving business performance
  • The number of individuals coached to certification

Dorian Awards Criteria

RT5 Leadership Award

The Rolling Top 5 Leadership Award is for leaders who have increased the impact of problem solving using Shainin technologies within their organization.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Demonstrates leadership guidance, structural framework, and effective mentoring of a dynamic problem-solving culture
  • Conducts regular reviews to ensure that key projects are solved quickly and efficiently
  • Encourages major suppliers and customers to jointly solve problems by using Shainin methods and leveraging the results
  • Actively recognizes and rewards outstanding performance in problem- solving
  • The number of successful projects and certifications

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

This category of awards is for project teams who have demonstrated outstanding application of Shainin methodologies in solving complex problems within their company.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Speed and efficiency of the problem solved
  • Technical difficulty and complexity of the problem solved
  • Project impact and leverage across the organization
  • Creative use of Shainin technologies
  • Clarity of the project documentation

Dorian Awards Criteria

Company Award

This category of awards is for companies who have succesfully developed a Red X Program within a facility, division, region, or company and can demonstrate impactful improvements based on that development.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Demonstrates impact of Shainin technology greatly improving key business metrics. 
  • Examples include: scrap reduction, yield improvement, throughput, warranty reductions, field failure avoidance, and other technical solutions resulting in savings. 
  • Enables a successful launch of a new program or product.