Star Products™
Star Products™ were born of Cooliemon's® unending dedication to creating, implementing, and teaching the most effective and comprehensive business improvement, training, and knowledge management methods in the world.
Our Star Products™ challenge two basic assumptions:
- You can't put an old head on young shoulders.
- There is no substitute for experience.
The looming retirement of the baby boomers – coupled with the birth dearth following that generation – imply a 50% shortfall in the managerial, executive and scientific or engineering talent required to meet tomorrow's business needs. While these are unchallengeable demographic facts that American businesses face in the next ten to fifteen years, Cooliemon® rejects those two basic assumptions. Moreover, we believe that our Star Products™ offer a sturdy foundation for disproving both.Star Products™ mirror and extend the capabilities of each of the four stars in the Cooliemon® services & products constellation:
- Star Organizational Improvement (Star OI™) products enhance business performance and operations by reducing waste, defects, and re-work as well as by improving productivity across your entire organization.
- Star Training Institute (Star TI™) products focus on knowledge transfer to rapidly build staff capacity as managers, executives, scientists, or engineers, based on their training needs and the past experience of those who preceded them.
- Star Knowledge Management (Star KM™) products capture, organize and make accessible the knowledge and experience that feed both Star OI™ and Star TI™.
Using these tools helps to free your company from the limitations of those infamous "two assumptions":
- Star KM™ takes the knowledge and experience from an "old head."
- Star TI™ transfers that knowledge and experience to "young shoulders."
- Star OI™ allows managers, executives, scientists, or engineers to use that knowledge and experience in ways that make them more productive in addressing the day-to-day operational concerns of the company.
Each part of the Cooliemon® Star Products™ array is designed for a specific purpose, and is geared to helping your organization achieve its goals and objectives.
Star Organizational Improvement
(Star OI™):
One of the brightest stars
in the Cooliemon® constellation!
There has never been anything quite like Cooliemon's
Star Organizational Improvement (Star OI™) Method.
This dynamic new approach eliminates waste, defects, rework and inefficiency (over a 3- to 5-year strategic period) – equal to 25 to 30 percent of your company’s direct labor costs.
With Star OI™, we will work with your team to leverage your current improvement efforts using our own proven tools and techniques. This includes maximizing your Six Sigma (6s) program and your investment in CMMI® ML 3 and beyond. Unlike other methods and standards, Star OI™ is a profit center, not a cost center, that can yield up to a 3.5:1 Return On Investment in the first 15-month cycle – and that hits your company's bottom line in a positive way!
These improvements will occur across your entire organization, and not just in a few departments or isolated projects. If you're ready and willing to take your business to the "next level," we think you'll find Star OI™ to be one of the best investments you've ever made in your company. Contact us today to find out more.
For an entertaining look at how the Star OI™ Method works, read Ralph Williams' new book, Stomp Yer Croc! A fable about the types of real problems faced by businesses every day, this book takes you effortlessly through the five "Starpoints" of the Star OI™ Method. It's a lifetime’s worth of lessons in quality management and business improvement, cleverly disguised as a riveting adventure story.
Star Training Institute (Star TI™)
Cooliemon's Star TI™ comprises existing training programs developed by our staff as well as courses that we are authorized to offer by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Our CMMI® training and workshops support the development and institutionalization of all process areas and maturity levels. These courses include:
- Business Improvement for the Executive
- Introduction to CMMI Version 1.2
- Training on any of the CMMI®Process Areas
- SCAMPISM - Standard CMMI ®Appraisal Method for Process Improvement
- Mini Appraisals (e.g., Class B, Class C)
- Goal Satisfaction Reviews - ensuring that the policies, standards, process, and procedures satisfy the goals of models such as CMMI®, ISO 9001, etc.
- PSPSM - Personal Software ProcessSM Training
- TSP SM - Team Software ProcessSM Training
- Process Definition Training
- CMMI® High Maturity Training
We also offer specialized training and workshops such as:
- Vision, Mission & Values
- Strategic Action Planning
- Tactical Action Planning
- Establishing Corporate Commitment
- Root Cause & Critical Success Measures
- Cost of Current Operations (COCO) Appraisal
- Effective Auditing Techniques
- Appraisal and Audit reviews - ensuring that your documented evidence satisfies an appraisal or audit
Of course, the Star TI™ constellation of products includes basic presentations on:
- What's Beyond CMMI® Level 5?
- Stomp Yer Croc®: The Fundamental Principles
- Star OI™ Overview
Cooliemon also offers tailored training
CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University. PSP, Personal Software Process, TSP, Team Software Process, SCAMPI are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
Star Knowledge Management
(Star KM™)
"The baby boomers are going to be leaving the workplace soon, and they are going to take all their knowledge with them."
Sandra Timmerman
MetLife Mature Market Institute
In numerous studies, both the Social Security Administration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics have reported that U.S. businesses face the loss of up 50% of their knowledge base in the next ten years.
Why is this knowledge going to be lost? The answer is simple: 70 to 75% of this knowledge is unstructured and half of that knowledge is in the brains of these baby boomers who will begin to retire in 2008!
The Star KM™ Technique structures the knowledge that your organization wants to keep in topics and snippets – to avoid the garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) problem.
Our Star KM™ Technique is designed to organize knowledge so it can be:
- Captured in a structured and rational manner
- Organized for both static and dynamic use
- Inter-related with other knowledge
- Stored for easy and rapid retrieval
As a result of using the Cooliemon Star KM™ Technique, knowledge, information, and data are strategically but straightforwardly available for integration with current and future operations.
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