Forrest W. Breyfogle III

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Forrest Breyfogle III (born 1946) is a management consultant, the CEO of consultant and training company Smarter Solutions, Inc. He was the developer of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system. Breyfogle is an American Society for Quality (ASQ) fellow 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.

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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 mngineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He founded Smarter Solutions in 1992. Breyfogle is an Affiliate Instructor at Weatherhead School of Management (part of Case Western Reserve University).

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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 and a contributing author for multiple publications, including Business Finance Mag, Quality Digest, Quality Magazine, and the Project Management Hut. Since 2003, Breyfogle has written articles for ASQ's Quality Progress that are about the IEE value chain and 30,000-foot-level reporting.

Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma

Breyfogle was awarded the ASQ Crosby Medal in 2004 in recognition of his book, Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd edition, in which he used a "cutting-edge approach to traditional Six Sigma methodologies." 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 Best Certification. Lean & Six Sigma World Organization includes Breyfogle on its list of the top twenty authorities on Lean & Six Sigma.

Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE)

Breyfogle developed a system called Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) with the three Rs of business in mind - doing the Right things, doing them Right, at the Right Time. He has stated that IEE "provides a framework for integrating Business Process Management with Enterprise Process Management." Breyfogle wrote a series of books focused on IEE. 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. The third book in the series has been described as "an excellent reference book" for Measurement system analysis.
In 2009, Procurement Insights blogger, author, and BlogTalkRadio host Jon Hansen 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".

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Awards and recognition

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

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References

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External links

• Smarter Solutions website
• Integrated Enterprise Excellence website

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