Course Offerings

This course is designed to help your organization become the next success story in applying the principles of Lean IT.

Learn the skills needed to effectively plan and lead a Kaizen Event, a series of process improvement activities intended to extend over a period of 3-5 days. This course includes instruction of essential lean tools and techniques to identify and eliminate process waste. Can stand alone or be included to supplement additional training.

This practice-based short course gives you an overview of Lean Enterprise tools and methods to help define and drive your waste reduction efforts. Tools include: value stream mapping, continuous flow, takt time, kaizen, line balancing, quick changeover, and 5-S, among others. Can be used to supplement a Six Sigma curriculum or as a standalone course.

A progressive series of Lean courses to equip your people with the right tools and behaviors to create a culture of continuous improvement. Students can complete 1, 2, or 3 courses of increasing depth and breadth for flexible training that suits the needs of each individual across - or within - your team.

The Champion's role on a process improvement project is to remove barriers to project success and ensure project teams have the organizational support they need to be effective. This course provides you with a high-level understanding of what Belts and project teams do, tools for project selection and management, and guidance on leading teams and leading change.

This course is for team members who need to develop a general awareness of Lean Six Sigma: what it is, why it matters, and what makes it successful. You will gain a broad understanding of the Lean Six Sigma improvement methodology, concepts, and language.

Learn to chart and understand process behavior over time. Develop proficiency in all tools necessary to chart process behavior, quantify variability, and assess process capability. Covers Statistical Process Control and Statistical Quality Control bodies of knowledge.

Learn the fundamental skills, techniques and methods necessary to plan and lead a complex project to successful completion. This course is comprised of multiple sessions that follow the Project Management Body of Knowledge as defined by the Project Management Institute.

Develop products and services that can meet your customers' requirements in a timely, cost-effective manner. Design for Lean Six Sigma (DfLSS) is a set of best practices and tools which can be integrated into a product or service development process to help products and services meet Six Sigma levels of quality.

Develop new or revised process designs that meet your customers' performance requirements. This course blends the best methods from Design for Lean Six Sigma (DfLSS), Agile Software Development, Lean Startup, and Design Thinking into a practical and effective approach driven by virtual process prototyping.