Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™)

This 5 day course provides a comprehensive guide to the process for integrating the differing, but complimentary methodologies of Lean Processing and Six Sigma Process Control. The resulting Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™) model taught in this program introduces one seamless approach for analyzing, designing, controlling, and continuously improving work processes in any industry and any work environment. Class participants will return to their home organizations fully prepared to plan and implement the leading edge LASSO™ methodologies necessary to create a best-in-class operating environment, characterized by the core values of innovation, continuous improvement, and teamwork. This course is designed for Six Sigma Black Belts or persons with equivalent education and experience.

Scheduled For Courses are scheduled based on notifications of interest through this website. All courses will be scheduled at “destination locations” and family members are encouraged to come along. Time will be allocated for family activities and / or group excurs

OBJECTIVE

This course presents a unified Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™) model, where practitioners are focused on organizational performance improvement through the redesign of work methods and workplace organizations. Using the LASSO™ model, participants learn and practice product, process, and organizational redesign, utilizing integrated Lean and Six Sigma principles, to create a work environments in which culture, organization, management, front line staff, and daily work methods combine synergistically to achieve and maintain best-in-class products and services Participants who complete the course work and case study / evaluation at the end of the course will receive Certification in the Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™) process.

SUMMARY

This is a course designed for experienced Six Sigma practitioners who are interested in, or under direction to, integrate and implement a Lean Six Sigma program in their organization. The course assumes a good working knowledge of Six Sigma as it is generally practiced in organizations using the Motorola or General Electric models. This Six Sigma Model is generally characterized by a project oriented approach, targeted at a specific work area and / or problem, led by a Six Sigma Black Belt. Projects are conducted as data driven examinations of the problem or work area in question. They are managed by a senior technical staff member or a team of technical staff members, who do the bulk of the analysis and come up with the project “solutions” in the form of an intervention in the work processes and / or organizational areas of focus. Projects are usually part of an annual cost reduction plan driven by executive mandated cost / performance goals and expected to achieve specific ROI results.

This course teaches a synergistic approach to the integration of Six Sigma Process Control and Lean Processing. Unlike the traditional Six Sigma project orientation, this class provides a methodology and implementation guide to a unified Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™) Model, that incorporates Six Sigma into the day-to-day continuous improvement methodologies of Lean Processing. The work process and organizational redesign requirements of the LASSO™ Model blend Six Sigma and Lean Processing, science based, continuous improvement, team based culture.

Practitioners attending this course will leave with the ability to implement the LASSO™ model on an organization wide basis, and to have the reasonable expectation, that with the support of their organization, they will have facilitated an organizational change resulting in the first stage of “best in breed” practices after 2-5 years of hard work. (Just being realistic here folks. J)

Certified graduates of this course will receive up to 10 hours of complimentary consulting assistance, by Best Consultants LASSO™ experts using telephone or Voice & Video Over IP (e.g. Skype, Yahoo IM, Web.net, Net Meeting, etc.) media.

DESCRIPTION

This is a 7 day, 55 hour class (i.e., beginning Saturday @ Noon and ending Friday @ Noon – scheduled for 7:00 AM thru 4:30 PM Sunday – Thursday) designed to teach participants all of the elements required to implement the Lean Six Sigma Operating LASSO™ Model when they return to their home organization. These elements will include education, application, and analysis of:

1.    The correlation between “Best In Breed” organizations and an organizational core competency of continuous improvement.

2.    The principles, tools, and measures of an Organizational Performance Improvement System (OPIS™).

3.    The Lean Six Sigma Operations (LASSO™) and its attributes as the best practice in OPIS™ alternatives.

4.    The Lean Processing journey, in both manufacturing and service environments.

5.    The 3 phases of Lean implementation – Workplace Design, Process Design, and Organizational Design.

6.    The elements of Lean Processing and a realistic application of those elements in classroom simulations of both manufacturing and service environments. Participants will take turns in the simulations experiencing the roles of front line employees and internal change consultants in the art of changing work methods and organizational structures.

7.    Review and refresher (as needed) in the principles and tools of Six Sigma Process Control. (Participants are required to be Six Sigma Black Belts or to have the equivalent education and experience in quantitative methods, statistics, and experiential design.)

8.    The LASSO™ Model, including the required change in focus in the application of Six Sigma from a project orientation to a work culture, work process, organizational design focus. The importance of creating a continuous improvement work culture, based on quantitative methods and designed experiments.

9.    Specific integration points and methods for the synergistic application of Six Sigma principles and tools to a Lean Processing environment. Learning and application using the same simulations introduced earlier in the week, but now applying Six Sigma to the “leaned” work methods and organization.

10. Business process measurement – Lecture, discussion and practice focusing on the appropriate way to measure the business / organizational success of the LASSO™ implementation in any organization and how those measures should be prepared, tracked and communicated throughout the organization.

11. Group case study / examination in which participant teams will have a short period to examine, analyze, and apply the LASSO™ Model to a complex organization’s work methods and organizational design. Each group will then report out their approach to the entire class and lead a discussion on implementing LASSO™ and what they learned during the 5 day program. This will also serve as a simulation for the method internal consultants should use in asking their work teams to report out on-going improvement results. In order to make this as realistic as possible, sponsoring executives are invited to attend the work group deliberations and report outs on the final afternoon of the course.

INSTRUCTOR
Doug Schaffer – Managing Director: Doug first began learning about and implementing Six Sigma and Lean Processing in 1984 when he was sent to programs offered through the Joseph Juran Institute, the W. Edwards Deming Institute, the Phil Crosby Quality C

COST
$4,900 per participant. Cost includes course and course materials, continental breakfast and lunch each day, one class dinner on the night before graduation, and 10 complementary hours of consulting help via telephone or Voice / Audio Over IP.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Participants should be experienced executives and internal consultants, with a Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent education and experience, who will be actively involved and / or in a leadership role in designing and implementing Lean Six Sigma in their h

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