Courses: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training. 

This training builds understanding of what it takes to create outstanding business results. It is designed for leaders and professionals driving the work to improve the organization's performance.

You learn "strategy deployment and organizational development" and "analysis and visualization of business data".

The course is 8 days virtual or physical classroom, delivered by partner Aksena.

Target group:

• Leaders responsible for internal business development (Operational Excellence programs and strategic business improvement programs).
• Leaders responsible for strategy and business development.
• Leaders responsible for the operation.
• Leaders responsible for developing and implementing the environment and sustainability strategy.
• Leaders responsible for developing and implementing the digital strategy.
• Leaders responsible for the quality system, audits and internal standards.
• Leaders responsible for the customer journey.
• Leaders and subject matter experts responsible for continuous improvements.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belts, Lean managers, Lean navigators and Lean coordinators.

Corse content:

The course is divided into 2 modules. A module is 4 consecutive days of training.

Topics:

1. How to design a holistic planning and execution structure supporting the ambitions of an agile organization.
2. How to design the process for strategy deployment.
3. How Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and tactical plans together can be used for concretization, involvement, reconciliation and communication in the process of strategy deployment.
4. How Business Process Management (BPM) can be used for control and development of the company’s business processes.
5. How Value Stream Management (VSM) can be used to identify strategic improvement needs.
6. How to establish and further develop a program for internal business development (based on Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, BSC and Agile methods).
7. How the theories in the Green Belt and Black Belt course can be used for operations assessments.
8. How the theories in the Green Belt and Black Belt course can be used to operationalize and implement a strategy for environment and sustainability.
9. How the theories in the Green Belt and Black Belt course can be used to operationalize and implement a strategy for digitization.
10. How data analysis can be used for documentation of product and process performance.
11. How data analysis can be used for fact-based root cause analysis.
12. How data analysis can be used for fact-based prioritization in improvement processes.

Module 1: Strategy deployment

This module introduces important methods and tools for strategic analysis and development of the organization.

Topics covered:

• What a Business System is and why it is important.
• What Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is and how it can be used for development, communication and deployment of strategy.
• What Business Process Management (BPM) is and how it can be used to gain control of and further develop the company’s value-creating processes.
• What Value Stream Management (VSM) is and how it can be used to improve end-to-end performance for products and services.
• How Hoshin Kanri from Lean and the theories from the Green Belt course can be used to design the process for strategy deployment.
• How core values ​​and Lean management principles establish a framework for behavior and decisions.
• How to establish and further develop a program for internal business development (strategic improvement program).
• How operational assessment based on the theories in the Green Belt and Black Belt can be used to develop the overall business improvement system.
• How organizational flexibility can be increased through agile planning and implementation at all levels.

Module 2: Data analysis & visualization

This module introduces important tools for standardized visualization and analysis of business data without the use of formulas. The analysis program Minitab is used in the exercises.

Topics covered:

• Various basic tools for visualizing data.
• The importance of understanding variation.
• Distributions and what they tell us.
• Sampling of data.
• Estimation of parameters.
• Uncertainty in estimation.
• Measurement system analysis - do we measure what we intend to measure?
• Hypothesis testing - we measure a difference, but is it significant?
• Capability analysis - what is the performance when measured against the specifications?
• Linear regression analysis - can we explain the variation observed?
• Experimental experimental design and why it is important.

Tools and methods included

• Brainwriting
• Hoshin kanri
• Balanced ScoreCards
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• The Catchball principle
• The X-matrix
• Enterprise process model (EPM)
• Capital model, human and structural capital
• Radar chart
• Histogram
• The normal distribution and other distributions
• Pareto diagram
• Boxplot
• Dotplot
• Control charts (I, MR, Xbar, R, P, U)
• Simple and multiple linear regression analysis
• Introduction to Experimental Design (DoE)
• Capability analysis
• Hypothesis testing for two samples
• Correlation
• Scatterdiagram
• The confidence interval
• Measurement system analysis using MSA, Bias & Linearity Studies

Some of the methods and tools are described at the introductory level, others are described thoroughly.

Instructors:

Sven Danielsen, Henning Bakken and Sissel Lundeby are course instructors. 

Sven is the CEO of Aksena. He offers strategic consultancy services and works as a lead instructor. His core competence is related to the Business System companies need to establish sustainable great results. Sven has been instructor for more than 100 courses and written three books within Lean Six Sigma.

Henning is a partner in Aksena, working as a strategic advisor and training instructor. He has a long experience as a manager in international business. Key responsibilities has been within implementation, execution and governance of improvement programs based on Lean, Six Sigma, BPM and BSC in larger companies.

Sissel is a trainer and consultant at Lean Tech. She has practiced Lean Six Sigma since 2002, completing Black Belt projects and certification. She is a IASSC (International association for Six Sigma certification) accredited trainer associate, with more than 20 years' experience within manufacturing and environmental technology. 

Feedback:

"Inspiring, professionally competent, popularize a theoretical discipline"

Espen Fjeld, Commercial Director at Berendsen

Diploma and certification:

Diploma: To obtain a diploma for successful completion you must have attended at least 6 of 8 course days.

Directions

Courses are normally arranged in Drammen or Oslo, see relevant course for details.

Company courses can be set up on request (virtual or physical). 

Prerequisites

It is recommended that you have completed Green belt training first, but it is not a requirement. 

To become Black Belt certified, you must have completed the Green Belt course.

Duration

8 days

Credits

None

Submission

To become certified Black Belt you need to conduct an approved improvement project within 12 months after the course end.

The project is considered approved if the project owner has approved the project and Aksena has approved the approach, tool usage and documentation.

By agreement, projects other than Six Sigma projects can also be approved.

To become Black Belt certified, you must have completed the Green Belt course.

Target audience

For leaders and professionals driving the work to improve the organization's performance.