Lean Sigma (Lean σ)

Welcome to the Six Sigma Training tab at JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team!

Featured here are 5 inter-related topics for Lean σ Training:

1.Lean Sigma Champions

2.Lean Sigma Black Belt

3.Lean Sigma Green Belt

4.Lean Sigma White Belt

5.Lean Sigma Project Team

Any business enterprise ultimately needs all of these capabilities in order to “survive and prosper” today and in the future. The Lean Sigma Team is ready, willing, and able to help you and your company on this important journey!

Where does one start?

We recommend beginning with the Lean Sigma Champions. These are the people with the direct responsibility for performance of a business process (more on this below). They need to be the leaders who have a vision of the future and provide the resources to achieve it.

Next, we believe you ought to start training and certifying your Lean σ White Belts. This is a basic level of Lean σ capability needed to start improving business processes.

Then a number of these certified Lean σ White Belts become interested enough to pursue the next level of training and certification, the Lean σ Green Belt. The difference here is the level of commitment. The Green Belt is expected to devote up to ½ of his/her work time to Lean σ projects.

After that comes the Lean σ Black Belt, a person who is now spending full time on Lean σ and helping his/her business with transformational change, while working on Lean σ projects.

Of course, the final level of achievement for these “belts” would be the Lean σ Master Black Belt. This is a level of certification we believe should be achieved only by those people who’ve worked full time to teach Lean σ and transform their business for a period of at least 5 full years. This is the Sensei level reached by only a handful of people in even the largest companies.

“Last and not the least”, as they say, comes the Lean σ Project Team. These are the people who are actually working on Lean σ projects. The majority of these projects should be done as 5-day Kaizen Events. Here we depart from the “standard” 6σ approach of defining DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) as a staff project that might take up to 4 months to complete. We DO NOT believe this is the proper way to go. The DMAIC process could be and should be completed within a 5-day Kaizen Event timeframe, with a project team.

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can help meet your training and implementation needs with Lean Six Sigma.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.