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Click PLAY to hear and overview of the Lean Six Sigma Training System. I used the methodology to identify numerous improvement opportunities and to initiate improvement projects affecting cash flow and rework. One project that took only a few meetings with a few people, resulted in 60% reduction in delayed bills, or an overall annual accelerated cash flow of $830,475.
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Training System #490 From: Jay Arthur Dear Operational Manager, Over the last decade, I have had the opportunity to work with companies from healthcare to aerospace. I've found a way to leverage the methods and tools of Six Sigma to create breakthrough improvements every time. I’ve helped companies save millions of dollars, and shave weeks and months off sloth-like processes. And so can you. And you can do it with a minimum investment that will generate maximum results. The difference between other improvement methods and our Lean Six Sigma Simplified System is:
Turn your processes into profits!As you are probably aware, most companies "hit the wall" in terms of the problems they can solve using common sense and trial and error. This usually happens at about 3-Sigma (1-2-3% defects). It's easy when there are big, obvious problems with big obvious causes, but as you eliminate these you'll find that you still have some nagging problems with seemingly invisible causes. This is when you can start to use a systematic method like Six Sigma. Time after time, I have found that as little as 4% of your business
produces over half of the waste and rework. Through laser-focused
improvement, you can cut these costs of waste and rework by 20-35%
of every dollar spent! And every dollar you save flows straight to your
bottom line. Inside every business is a hidden gold mine — the mother lode where you can mine tremendous improvements in productivity and profitability. In this Lean Six Sigma System, you'll learn how to:
Double Your Profits!Most people think that you have to double your marketshare to double your profits, but they fail to consider that if your profit margins are 10-15-20% that you can double your profits by reducing your costs by 10-15-20%. As I'm sure you know, most companies have hidden "fix-it" factories working overtime to prevent poor quality products from finding their way to the customer. These fix-it factories eat up 25-40% of your total costs in a 3-Sigma business. And any business that relies on common sense, gut-feel, and trial-and-error to resolve these difficulties rarely rises above a 3-Sigma level. Here's the good news: any 3-Sigma business can rise to a 5 sigma level in 18-24 months and recover 10-15-20% of your total costs along the way. Those savings translate into pure profit! How can you do it? By laser-focus on reducing delay and defects, and increasing speed and quality which results in lower costs, higher profits, and increased marketshare. Double Your QualityHow often have your customers said: “It doesn’t work! It’s broken; fix it!” How often have you caught yourself saying: “There's too much crisis management, too many fire drills.” It doesn’t have to be this way. Working with a computer operations group, we found ways to reduce online system downtime by 74% in just six months. With a wireless company we were able to reduce order errors from 17% down to 3% in just six months saving $250,000 per month in correction costs. As you know, most companies have groups of people who’s sole purpose in life is to clean up the mistakes made in sales, marketing, ordering, fulfillment, application systems, billing, and payments. Solving these pressing business issues requires systematic analysis of the evidence that will lead you to root causes which can be corrected, often with minimal cost. The Lean Six Sigma Simplified Training System gives you a proven, step-by-step formula for finding and fixing the root causes of your most vexing performance problems. Double Your Speed!How often have you or your customers wished that you could be faster? At ordering, fulfilling, billing, or just answering the phone? YOU CAN BE! Dynamic performance improvements are not limited to a lucky few. There are proven, systematic strategies for slashing cycle time without flogging employees to work harder or faster. In Six Sigma Simplified, you’ll learn how to reduce cycle time by 50-80-90% by 1) defining the process, 2) identifying the delays, and 3) restructuring the process to eliminate the delay. I worked with one computer operations group that found a simple way to reduce the run time of a major “batch” job from 9 hours down to 1 hour. A claims processing organization found two ways to cut their cycle time by 50-60 days! The Lean Six Sigma Simplified System shows you a simple, elegant way to identify and eliminate the delays built into any process. Nervous about Doing It Yourself?If you've ever done a home improvement project for the first time, you know how difficult it can be. My first plumbing project took three trips to the hardware store, some busted knuckles, most of Saturday (my day "off"), and I had to hire a plumber anyway. Six Sigma improvement isn't much different. If you'd like some guidance along the way, we can tailor a program to fit your budget. I can show you how to:
We offer email, phone, and on-site consulting to jump-start your journey to breakthrough productivity and profitability. We got more out of one day with your Money Belt consulting than we did from a Big 8 accounting firm for $120,000. Jim Mohrhauser Warning! Over one-third (33%) of all Six Sigma efforts fail.A recent study done by Quality Digest Magazine found that only 64% of respondents said that Six Sigma has significantly improved profitability and that many companies seem to be abandoning Six Sigma after 2-3 years. Pathetic! The costs of these failures can run into the millions for wasted training and teams. Unfortunately, most companies are using the same, dumb implementation strategy they used for TQM on Six Sigma! Don't let your Six Sigma implementation fail. Traditional Six Sigma training can take up to four weeks and $40,000 for a Blackbelt and one week and $5,000 for a Greenbelt. Since these are classroom trainings, 90% of this information will be lost within 48-72 hours. In the early 1990s, I taught TQM this way. They were great trainings. People loved them. But after participants went back to their job and tried to catch up from being gone for a week, it was weeks or months before they tried to put what they'd learned into practice. I became dissatisfied with the pathetic results from this kind of training and started to benchmark the strategies of NLP–Neuro-Linguistic Programming, because NLP instructors could teach things in a way that everyone learned and, more importantly, retained. The Lean Six Sigma Simplified System delivers a proven, research-based method to implement Six Sigma (or anything else for that matter) in ways that ensure success with substantially lower risk. The secret? Harness the power of "diffusion" to "crawl-walk-run" your way to success. Over 50 years of research into how cultures adopt, adapt, or reject changes like Six Sigma proves that a series of small successful projects will optimize your chances of success. Rather than train everyone in Six Sigma, doesn't it make more sense to only train those employees laser-focused on fixing the 4% of the business causing over half the waste and rework? Wouldn't it make sense to train these employees "just in time" so that the learning isn't lost from lack of use? I created the Lean and Six Sigma Training Video to simplify your learning process. In just four half-hour segments, you'll learn the essential tools and methods of breakthrough improvement. The Six Sigma workbooks simplified and streamlined our training process, saving several days per class over the original courses. More importantly, you managed to transfer your skills and ways of thinking to the leaders of these improvement efforts. In The Lean Six Sigma Simplified Workbook, you'll learn how to train teams "just in time" in as little as two hours. Then you can take them right into focusing or analyzing the problem. In eight hours of real-world application, participants will learn and retain more than they can from a week of classroom training. The Lean Six Sigma Simplified Workbook includes:
The Six Sigma books are a non-intimidating approach to systematic improvement that retain all the goodness of Six Sigma without watering it down. Excel SPC Software for Charts and GraphsSix Sigma uses charts, graphs, and other tools the way a hospital uses technology to monitor the health of a patient. These charts become a "common language" for understanding, monitoring and improving your processes. To get the most out of Six Sigma, you'll need a way to draw these charts
and graphs. But you don't want to learn all of the statistics involved
and you wouldn't want to spend a small fortune buying the software to
draw them. So I created the QI Macros for Excel
that will do all of the math and draw all of the charts for you in the
familiar environment of Microsoft Excel. You can't lose with our I agree, it is valuable...to all of us. If everyone knew how to use these
methods and tools, the world would be a better place to live in. We'd
all waste less time getting products and services right the first time. © 2007 KnowWare International Inc. (888) 468-1537 |
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