UK Lean Six Sigma Consulting and Training
Lean and Six Sigma tools and principles are highly effective methods of achieving improvements in business performance. They can be successfully applied to all business types from the manufacturing industry to service providers to the Public Sector.
Six Sigma enables organisations to firstly identify and focus in on what is actually valuable to them. Then, it provides tools to measure performance so that improvement can actually be quantified whether that improvement represents a reduction in manufacturing costs or procurement costs or an increase in the quality of service provided by a call centre.
Lean is concerned with identifying and eliminating wasted resource from business processes. Although this sounds like a cost cutting exercise and results in reduced costs it does not simply look for ways to reduce spending. It examines processes to discover how to make them faster and fitter and creates a cycle of continuous improvement.
If Lean and Six Sigma concepts are new to you we recommend you visit our What is Lean Six Sigma? pages.
Redlands Associates provides its clients with a high level of support and effective training that enables them to significantly improve their business processes through deploying Lean and Six Sigma techniques.
Typically, the approach involves
- engaging Leadership in how Lean and Six Sigma can help the business
- How Lean Six Sigma will benefit the business
- The roles involved in implementing Lean Six Sigma
- How to identify and scope Lean Six Sigma projects
- How to manage the Lean Six Sigma programme
- How to manage Lean Six Sigma projects
- making an assessment of the business to identify major improvement opportunities
- Reviewing Key Performance Indicators
- Identifying business improvement priorities
- Mapping and measuring processes to identify improvement opportunities
- Reviewing opportunities with employees
- Scoping major improvement opportunities into finite projects with specific measurable objectives
- developing the skills of key employees as Champions, Green Belts and Black Belts
- The roles of the Deployment Champions and Project Champions are critical to the success of a Lean Six Sigma Programme. Lean and Six Sigma Champions are members of the Leadership/Management team who are essential in driving the programme and projects to achieve substantial benefits on time. We provide these Champions with the knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma necessary to select and manage high impact projects through to completion.
- Black Belts have a full time role leading improvement projects using cross functional teams and receive 20 days of training. Black Belts need to be able to ask the right sort of quesions that lead to the root causes of porblems and ensure that correct decisions are made and lasting solutions are implemented. Black Belts need to be able to select ana apply the tools and techniques that support an approach that is driven by data.
- applying Lean and Six Sigma to deliver project results
This is a one day workshop for leadership that introduces the Lean and Six Sigma programme.
This is typically a five day activity that involves
Lean Six Sigma improvement projects follow a fact based apporach through Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control (DMAIC) phases. This approach ensures that lasting solutions are implemented that address the root causes of problems.
In our experience the majority of Black Belts and Greeen Belts will require good technical and organisationsl support not only to gain the confidence that they are apporoaching projects correctly but also to ensure they are using the correct tools and techniques in the correct manner.
The Champions also require support in selecting scoping and chartering projects and holding DMAIC stagegate reviews.
Therefore we advise that our consultants support you in selecting and chartering projects and managing the Lean and Six Sigma projects through to completion.
We have worked with clients from a broad range of industries including financial services, retail, manufacturing and the public sector. Our Lean and Six Sigma programmes have generated substantial cost savings and benefits for our clients and their customers.
All our consultants have extensive experience having been employed as Lean and Six Sigma Master Black Belts with firms that lead the way with Lean and Six Sigma such as AlliedSignal, GE and Ford and premier consultancies such as Six Sigma Academy.
For further information about Lean Six Sigma Support and Lean Six Sigma Training Programmes please contact us or continue to browse our web site.