In order assure breakthrough success with Six Sigma, there must be support from the executive level. Executive buy-in and support is crucial for rapid implementation and ensuring that Six Sigma methodologies propagate throughout the organization.

Goals:

The goal of this workshop is to educate you on the technical and managerial content of Six Sigma and the meaning of Six Sigma thinking. After covering the financial and operational reasons for switching to Six Sigma, we’ll show you how to customize Six Sigma for your company. You’ll also gain a basic understanding of Six Sigma, and learn the critical roles and responsibilities within a Six Sigma organization.

Ultimately you’ll be prepared to make four decisions crucial to successful short-term and long-term Six Sigma implementation:

  1. What projects will be tackled during the first 6 months of implementation?
  2. Who will be the Six Sigma Champions?
  3. Who will be the first-round Black Belt candidates?
  4. Are we really committed to making Six Sigma work?

Description:

To prepare you to help with roll-out and support, you’ll be introduced to Six Sigma business strategy. We’ll review the history of Six Sigma management and identify the underlying key principles. In order to facilitate implementation, we’ll discuss obstacles to sustained growth and help you to rank your organization’s values. You’ll also examine ways to maximize customer satisfaction with quality and learn to look at business metrics as a link to value and action. You’ll learn how to identify what projects and organizations are best suited for Six Sigma and how deployment affects your company’s business culture.

We’ll also cover a broad implementation plan and work through the process of customizing this to the needs of your organization.

Skills:

  • What the “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control” (DMAIC) approach to problem solving is and how to use it
  • Business measurements and benchmarking
  • Six Sigma metric calculation and rolled-throughput yield
  • Techniques to design for Six Sigma
  • How to define values
  • Implementation and deployment strategy
  • Strategic planning
  • Process management and capability
  • Creating systems of indicators
  • Various statistical tools
  • Strategic and financial linkage

Format:

This is a one-day workshop.

Who Should Attend:

Senior leadership including the CEO, Department or Business Unit Heads, and Senior Professionals

Price:

$2,000.00 per course plus course manuals and travel expenses for the instructor with a maximum of 15 people.