Course Outline - Lean Six Sigma - Executive Briefing

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Foreword:

This course has been developed to create an awareness of the means of deploying and the impact of a Lean Six Sigma initiative as a Business Process Improvement program.

The goal of this training is to:

• Increase your understanding of Lean Six Sigma techniques as business process improvement methodologies.
• Assist you in assessing the impact such as a program may have for your company.
• To gain an understanding of the role you, as management, must undertake to achieve the greatest level of business success.

Personal Results

After successfully completing this course you will have enhanced your knowledge of process functionality, analytical skills, problem solving skills and methods for increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and adaptability of the organization you manage.

Specific LSS learning outcomes:

• Obtain an understanding of a Lean Six Sigma program objectives
• Know and comprehend the impact the concepts can have on your business
• Become familiar with the terminology
• Comprehend daily work as a process-oriented activity
• Understand process inputs and outputs
• Understand process flow and know what determines value add vs. non-value add
• Understand how the processes you manage fit into the larger set of processes needed in delivering value to the customer
• Grasp the power of Process Mapping and characterization
• Recognize significant outputs and quantify their level of performance to requirements
• Identify inputs and their relationship to the significant outputs
• Link key processes to the strategic objectives of the company
• Establish control mechanisms and monitoring processes to sustain an existing process and improvements you make.
• Prepare to implement a Lean Six Sigma
• Determine the structure of such a program for your company
• Learn to identify “projects”, prioritize them and link them to corporate strategy