These described enhancements to courses in lean Six Sigma address the lack of sustainability that often occurs with a traditional lean Six Sigma deployment.
Enhancement to Courses in Lean Six Sigma
The PDF published article below provides opinions about various aspects of a traditional lean Six Sigma training deployment. The first portion of the article has a picture of Forrest Breyfogle with a student.
In this published article, Forrest indicates that there are issues with a traditional lean Six Sigma deployment. With a conventional lean Six Sigma implementation approach, improvement projects are often in silos and don’t benefit the business as a whole (if they get completed at all).
What this form of project selection can lead to is the reporting from an overall lean Six Sigma deployment that 100 million dollars was saved but nobody can seem to find the money. In time, traditional lean Six Sigma deployments typically stall out and either are downsized significantly or eliminated completely. Why? Leadership is not seeing the true big-picture benefits from their deployment.
What organizations need is a lean Six Sigma 2.0 methodology where improvement projects are to improve Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics that are important to the business and these KPIs are reported from a process-output point of view.
This need is fulfilled through an Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) deployment where projects are aligned to business needs through an Enterprise Improvement Plan (EIP).
An example EIP is:
IEE offers more than just improvement project selection. IEE also addresses the business management and improvement issues described in a 1-minute video
A high-level description of IEE is provided in the article:
All the details about an IEE lean Six Sigma deployment and execution are provided in a 5-book series:
To see some of the available IEE courses in lean Six Sigma 2.0 click here.
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