Effective Six Sigma Green Belt
Not getting the results you need for customers and shareholders? Set your team up for success!
Don’t listen to people who discourage you from using Six Sigma DMAIC as your structured problem solving processes. Done right, it works! (To be fair, many companies have botched the rollout or deployment, leading to a lot of misunderstanding about the intent and core concepts of Six Sigma, and contributing to a backlash – but this is not the fault of the methodology or toolkit themselves.)
We know how to roll out and support Six Sigma right. We've done it successfully, and we’re eager to help others with their implementations.
Many companies have tried to deploy Six Sigma by quickly graduating hundreds of Black Belts, but they had few meaningful results to show for it. Done properly, you won’t be counting belts as your measure of success – you’ll be solving your company’s toughest problems and measuring the defect rate improvements and bottom-line dollars saved.
Structured problem solving is only worth adopting if it will deliver a big return on investment. Our goal is to make the most effective practice the normal practice for your teams. Take advantage of our Effective Six Sigma Green Belt course and implementation advice to learn the right way to deploy and use the DMAIC toolkit. Effective deployment & use includes:
Effective Deployment of Six Sigma:
- Understanding your problem area and goals
- Creating a master plan for the deployment
- Making structured problem solving part of the company culture
- Creating the mechanisms to reward real results, not belts
Effective Use of Six Sigma DMAIC:
- Understanding the DMAIC thought process and toolkit (and adopting the most effective tools from “competing” problem-solving paradigms)
- Scoping high payback projects
- Leveraging critical thinking to ask the right questions
- Right tool at the right time to get the desired outcome
- Real-time project coaching by expert practitioners
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