Continuous Improvement –
Lean 6 Sigma
Where Mathematics Meets Business
Do you wish to implement Lean Six Sigma programmes within your business, but your staff needs some training to gain confidence in the use of the methodology and its tools?
Are you already running successful Kaizen projects, but have limited capacity and need some interim support from a qualified Lean Six Sigma consultant to join your staff on a flexible, freelance basis?
Or perhaps some members of your team involved in quality improvement projects simply need a subject knowledge refresher in maths and statistics to better understand and access the science and the statistical tools behind Six Sigma?
Mr Coach can help you with:
- Rolling out process, quality, and efficiency improvement projects
- Running Six Sigma and Lean management projects
- Audit of your continuous improvement capabilities and quality assurance systems
- Training staff in Six Sigma and Lean management principles
- Mathematics and statistics subject knowledge enhancement for Lean 6 Sigma
- Use of Sigma XL software
What is Lean Six Sigma?
Six Sigma is one of the most widely used, data-driven methodologies to make business processes more effective and efficient. As well as establishing a culture of continuous improvement, Six Sigma offers tools and techniques to define, evaluate, and improve the quality of every step of a process leading to increases in productivity. Reducing variance, eliminating waste and defects, and identifying the root causes of errors, it allows organizations to create better products and services for consumers, achieve business structure efficiencies, and increase the bottom-line profit. While many people associate Lean Six Sigma with manufacturing, the methodology is applicable to any type of process and in any industry and setting including services and the public sector.
‘’The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.’’
Helmut Schmidt
Almost every organisation needs to find a way of defining, measuring, analysing, improving, and controlling (DMAIC) their processes in order to reduce or completely eliminate defects, over-production or processing, waiting time, unused talent, idle capacity or resources, transport costs, and excessive inventory. Lean Six Sigma is a powerful approach to implementing quality control measures and employing change. Lean Six Sigma focuses on customer satisfaction by improving business practices and removing actions that do not add value.
What do Six Sigma consultants do and why use them?
You may be wondering why you would even need an external consultant who may not have direct experience of your business and markets, after all, you have probably already invested a lot of money training your own personnel in all aspects of your operations.
We believe that you know more about your business and industry better than any Six Sigma consultant. However, sometimes it is a good idea to step back and let someone else have a fresh and impartial view of your processes thus avoiding any internal bias. An independent Six Sigma consultant may have more knowledge on some aspects or at least see things in a different way to offer you an alternative approach and new ideas. We also have a strong engineering, mathematical, and statistical training and teaching background and can skillfully hinder the challenges and provide sound, logical explanations at each stage of the process.
Contact us to start discussing improvements we can help you make to your business.
Mr Coach’s Background and Portfolio:
Multiple continuous improvement and change management roles Mr Coach has been involved in include Business Performance, Process Improvement and Quality Assurance Consultant as well as Global Marketing Manager, and Curriculum Development Lead.
Examples of continuous improvement projects Mr Coach has worked on to name just a few include:
- Production process and supplier quality assurance
- Business performance analysis and improvement
- Management information system improvement
- Production system cost analyses and savings
- Business repositioning and rebranding project including the creation of an efficient, good value-for-money, lean marketing function
- Enhanced and enriched curriculum development project to improve consistency of teaching as well as students’ engagement and outcomes
Numerous industries we have worked for include packaging, metal, automotive, engineering, manufacturing, transport, and the education sector.
Mr Coach has a strong production systems engineering and quality management background and has also worked for many years in marketing, product, and communications roles. Mr Coach is a Lean Six Sigma certified Black Belt as well as a qualified mathematics teacher with long and solid experience in curriculum development and delivering training and therefore very well positioned to act as a Lean Six Sigma instructor for your staff. To read more, please also visit our Training & Course Material page.
‘’Every initiative should in a way be a Kaizen project. Otherwise, the purpose will be defeated, the effort will be futile and the positive outcomes will soon wither away.’’
Marcin Radziul
