It was a huge cultural shift for us to go from saying "I feel" to instead saying "the data tells me."
The YMCA of Greater Cincinnati is applying Lean Six Sigma thinking to overcome membership and workforce challenges. Keri Brewer, former Master Black Belt with Bridgestone, is leading the way and MoreSteam's project management software, TRACtion, is providing the platform for the organization’s work.
How does continuous improvement differ in the U.S. compared to Europe? What elements have been overlooked when teaching the material? Arnd Huchzermeier, Chaired Professor of Production Management at the WHU — Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and Co-Founder of the INSEAD-WHU Industrial Excellence Award shares his thoughts and experiences about developing skilled CI practitioners.
"When I talk to companies, what they want most are employees who can think critically and solve problems," said Alan Goodman, Instructional Chair for the Quality Engineering and Technology program at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). "Being able to come in and do the job you're asked to do is great, but if you're able to see the big picture and be a problem-solver, that's how you really add value."
Our 2021 MBB training schedule will offer virtual sessions during the first half of the year. Visit the program page to learn more about this program offered in partnership with Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. The training segment combines live classes with online coursework. Certification requires successful performance on two exams and a project portfolio review of the candidate’s body of work.
This past year, we've helped a lot of clients figure out how to provide realistic practice within their Lean training programs when you're not bringing students together in a classroom. MoreSteam offers a solution to flex Lean training to suit individual needs and still unite everyone on common ground. Learn how this blended model of online and experiential learning can support your Lean culture!
When you can't work on everything at once, let TRACtion help you sort out the noise and focus on the most important work in your CI journey. The new idea scoring wizard helps connect strategies with execution by converting good ideas to specific project work. Build your pipeline of project ideas across your organization, evaluate the ideas based on your own customized criteria, and then choose the best-fit projects.
Introduce your students to all the process improvement tools with a step-by-step tour of how to use each tool in EngineRoom. No need to prepare extra class materials – slide sets are available for commonly used Lean and DMAIC tools. If students have questions when they're practicing or later doing project work, they can access the in-product User Support that includes video tutorials and the same step-by-step instructions.
So much focus on Big Data. Solving problems close to where the work is done is how organizations get better every day. Little data still matters, but you need the analytical tools to mine it. Learn why some of the biggest companies in the world – including Google, Uber, and Southwest Airlines – use EngineRoom to analyze data and manage projects.
By day, Emmanuel Aouad is a process optimization program manager with a passion for Lean Six Sigma and organizational efficiency. By night, he's an up-and-coming rapper and nerdcore artist who goes by the name Creative Mind Frame, writing and performing original songs about anything and everything that interests him. And that's how a rap song about the DMAIC process — called "Take it Back to Define" — was born.
Join MoreSteam CEO, Bill Hathaway, to discuss how to redesign your training model to fit 2021 and beyond by applying the tools of process improvement to its actual training design. Live sessions will step through a case study to show how the DCDOV roadmap and VOC tools are used to deliver better training outcomes and, ultimately, project results. Package includes Customer-driven Process Design course and EngineRoom software. $150
New language options are available to support your global process improvement training! Now it’s even easier to keep course content consistent across multiple sites. German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese versions have been added to our Root Cause Analysis course. Our popular Lean 1 course is now offered in Russian and Italian. Check out our full listing of languages!
Have you checked out the most recent EngineRoom updates yet? The next time you log in, be sure to explore the Voice of Customer (VOC) tools—Affinity Diagram, CTQC, and Cause & Effect Matrix—to experience the fresh user interface. We've also added a new feature that unifies these tools and creates a smooth flow of trackable information. See what else is new!
In a normal year, when most of our team is working together under one roof, it's easy to promote a strong team culture through fun parties and regular team meetings. In 2020, as with pretty much everything else, it's been more challenging. Still, though, we've found creative ways to keep that culture front of mind even though our team is staying socially distant and working from home.
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is partnering with MoreSteam to offer a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification program. Students will complete MoreSteam’s online Green Belt modules and attend live virtual coaching and review sessions led by IU faculty. The training portion of the program concludes with a capstone simulation: MoreSteam’s Sherlock Holmes Zombie Hunter. The first session opens in early November.
Michael Orzen and Thomas Paider worked together to co-author the 2015 book "The Lean IT Field Guide: A Roadmap for Your Transformation." Now, they've partnered with MoreSteam to create an online course aimed at helping IT professionals across all industries. We asked Orzen and Paider to share a few insights about their history together, including the story behind the new course and who can benefit from it.
This course is designed to help organizations become the next success story in applying the principles of Lean IT. The road starts by understanding how Lean IT fits in the world of IT process improvement and project management methodologies, including Agile and DevOps. Learn how Lean principles can transform all aspects of IT, including application development, deployment, security, networks, and infrastructure.
A colleague recently mentioned that his organization has experienced an innovation bump during the pandemic. During this year of constant change, ideas that had previously been discarded were, out of necessity, now being embraced. The upside of these experiments is that many of them turned out to be valuable changes for the organization. His question to me was: "How do I keep this going?"
Learn to apply the lean approach to project-based problem solving with your team in this virtual workshop. Teams practice the Plan-Do-Check-Act process and apply Lean and Six Sigma tools while playing MoreSteam’s InBox Lean Office simulation. Each team builds a project storyboard and is evaluated on the impact of their improvements on the system. Nov. 12-13. $199-$299 per participant.
The accessibility is really nice. The online curriculum made the class more fun. A lot of creative elements are included. Hybrid learning models that blend online coursework with live instruction have been gaining in popularity, especially with the need to socially distance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much has been published about the instructional benefits, but what do the students think?
Be our guest at MoreSteam’s 18th Fall Best Practices for Operational Excellence Conference. This year, we’re hosting a travel-free, budget-free event. The 2020 schedule includes a sensational lineup of 3 Leadership Panels + New Solutions Showcase + Deeper Dive Workshops. As always, the focus is on practical knowledge you can take back to improve your program. Join us and create your own agenda!
Learn how Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) repurposed several practice exercises from MoreSteam's Yellow Belt course to provide middle and high school students some hands-on experience with quality tools. MoreSteam’s virtual mini sims were a perfect fit for the virtual camp that highlighted snippets of cyber security, electronic technology and quality engineering careers.
Join Master Instructor and MoreSteam President, Peg Pennington, for this new Master Series certificate program. This class helps leaders institute Root Cause Analysis as a way of thinking to support a Lean problem-solving culture. Package includes online Fundamentals of Root Cause Analysis course, EngineRoom software, and two broadcast sessions led by Peg. $150 fee covers all materials.
At many of the country's top universities, instructors have been using eLearning courses and online simulations for years, helping them smoothly transition to a fully virtual classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recently spoke with a few college instructors and asked what they like best about the blended learning model, and why they think it benefits everyone involved.
AB InBev’s continuous improvement strategy has evolved, in the past two years, to provide belts with formal program training and support. The focus has been placed on fewer, more impactful projects and to develop a community, leveraging AB InBev's 3,000 employees who are trained in higher level lean six sigma methods to engage their analytical skills and provide value to the business.
Although we never planned to offer our InBox training simulation virtually, a client recently asked us to run the simulation with their remote participants and it was a huge success. We ended up running it for 39 people, rather than the standard 15-person classroom runs and the online setting actually INCREASED participation! Here are a few things we learned.
A core principle of Lean management is about observing the place where work is happening – but how can we accomplish that with a remote workforce? How can you train new practitioners without a classroom? Join Peg Pennington, MoreSteam President, for a group discussion about lessons learned and best practices of Lean management in today's increasingly virtual workspace.
As part of MoreSteam's Client Services team, Amita Sherwood coaches Lean Six Sigma practitioners at some of the biggest companies in the world. Because the majority of her coaching is done virtually from her home office, she's an obvious source for helpful insights about how to coach in the current work-from-home environment. Here are a few of her keys to success for coaching Lean from a distance.
Earn a certificate in this new professional development program led by Dr. Lars Maaseidvaag. Online course, live group sessions, case study, and EngineRoom software included. Turn design thinking into design doing without the fear of failure. Live kickoff will be broadcast on May 14th. This series is geared towards anyone who would like to learn process modeling techniques. We hope you’ll join us!
Join us at SimCamp to learn more about facilitating our most popular simulations and see how they can kickstart your training curriculum. We'll cover how the simulations can be used to help drive a problem-solving culture in your organization from project team training to executive onboarding. Then, you'll get a 360-view as you try on the role of a participant.
When measurement matters, measure the measurement system. Our Gauge R&R toolset recently got a makeover including: (1) new “Take 2” blackboard videos to summarize key concepts; (2) new Deeper Dive to explain the importance of a good gauge; (3) new animated example; and, (4) updated audio and software tutorials. See other recent updates on our What’s New page!
Taking the time to hone a team's creative problem-solving skills during "normal" business cycles better equips team members to adapt and excel when they have to navigate uncharted waters. Hackathons are used by many companies and universities to give developers a chance to think outside the box and explore new technologies. They also are a great team building event and can be held in-person or virtually.
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