Overview - Who should attend and why

This one day executive summary is designed to provide senior managers with an understanding of Lean Six Sigma and to investigate if and how it can help their organisations.  The structured step-by-step approach of Lean Six Sigma is helping companies from all industry sectors to make considerable gains in profitability, reduce waste and improve processes.   Lean Six Sigma is quickly becoming the standard used to improve businesses across the world.  This workshop gives an outline of what is involved in Lean Six Sigma, provides hands on experience of the kind of issues that arise, and describes the tools that are used. It also explains the other initiatives and quality techniques and explains how they all work together.  The workshop requires no prior knowledge of Lean Six Sigma.

Course Objectives

The objectives of the course are:

• To provide a summary of Lean Six Sigma in one day
• To outline the steps required to implement
• To become aware of the tools used in Lean Six Sigma
• To understand the link between all other initiatives
• To enable the manager to evaluate if Lean Six Sigma can assist their organisation
• To understand how to structure a Lean Six Sigma organisation

Course Content

• Introduction
• Overview of Lean Six Sigma – what is it, where did it come from, why do it
• The fundamentals of Lean Six Sigma – the problem solving process
• The structure and roles in Lean Six Sigma
• Deploying Lean Six Sigma in an organisation
• How to select projects for Lean Six Sigma
• How Lean Six Sigma links with other improvement initiatives – Lean etc
• Impact of Lean Six Sigma on an organisation – the benefits, soft and hard
• Action planning for your organisation
• Wrap up

Costs, Duration and Location

• The cost of this training course is £500 plus VAT
• The duration 1 day
• Various locations throughout the UK, please contact us for further details