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FINANCE, INSURANCE

We help the  FINANCE INDUSTRY 
improve with Lean Six Sigma

Partner with us to measurably reduce costs, improve productivity and enhance customer satisfaction.

FEATURED  CLIENT RESULTS 

$21 Million in Savings

Our online Lean Six Sigma training makes it easy for any industry to reduce costs and improve efficiencies without jeopardizing its core mission. By empowering employees to problem solve, GoLeanSixSigma.com’s courses enabled the Tennessee Valley Authority to close a substantial budget gap by $21 million.

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We tried bringing in Lean Six Sigma in the past and it wasn’t working, even though Continuous Improvement was designated as a core TVA competency. By combining GoLeanSixSigma.com’s online training with onsite project support and a steady stream of success stories we managed to engage employees at every level in every plant.

Bill Guill, GoLeanSixSigma.com Black Belt
Regional Manager, Tennessee Valley Authority

Below are Lean Six Sigma success stories in the Financial Services industries organized alphabetically. For success stories in other industries, please visit our Case Studies page.

AXA | A Process-focused Approach to Improving Business Performance

The operational performance of a business is the result of the performance of its processes in a coherent value chain delivering what customers want. A process focus in a business allows it to be tuned up, maximizing opportunities and eliminating non-value-added activities, with or without changing IS support.

Bank of America | Bank of America: Investing in Six Sigma

Two years ago, when Barbara J. Desoer was named global technology, service and fulfillment executive at Bank of America Corp., she immediately began applying to its IT and fulfillment practices the Six Sigma quality management expertise she had developed as chief of the bank’s consumer products group. One of the key areas where Bank of America’s IT organization has contributed to the bottom line has been through its systems integration work following its April 2004 acquisition of FleetBoston Financial Corp. The effort to consolidate systems between the two banks, which was completed last fall, helped contribute to $1.85 billion in pretax operational savings for Bank of America, says Desoer. In other merger follow-ups, the IT organization plans to combine the bank’s credit card portfolio onto the IT platforms of MBNA Corp., a Wilmington, Del.-based credit card issuer that Bank of America acquired in January. This effort, which will take 1 million staff-hours to complete, is expected to help generate $850 million in after-tax cost efficiencies in 2007, Desoer says.

Bank of Australia | Commonwealth Bank of Australia Recognized for Process Excellence

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Group Executive of Enterprise Services has recently accepted an award at the Process Excellence Week Conference. The CBA group is always excited about serving the customers’ needs. Since January 2004, the group has been focused on building individual capability through Lean Six Sigma.

Capital One | Capital One Banks on Six Sigma for Strategy Execution and Culture Transformation

When a major shift in strategy propelled Capital One Direct Banking business in a new direction, the organization—arming itself with Six Sigma expertise and capabilities—set out to change its management model, redesign its major business processes, and nurture a culture centered around customer focus and continuous improvement. Three years later, the associates have embraced this new culture of customer focus and a commitment to continuous improvement—all with enviable results to the bottom line. The Direct Banking business has been recognized both internally within Capital One and by external organizations with numerous awards for accomplishing this impressive cultural transformation.

CenterState Bank Central | How Lean Six Sigma Can Help Your Bank

According to Chris Nichols, Chief Strategy Officer at CenterState Bank Central in Florida, “If your bank performs worse than industry benchmarks or peers, that is [a] sign that you may have inefficiencies.” In this article, Chris shares how Lean Six Sigma can help banks get to a 35% efficiency ratio to be competitive in the future and how to fix loan processing problems in a systematic way. Lean Six Sigma can help cut credit processing costs, speed performance and reduce errors!

Eau Claire County | How $19k in Stolen Checks Forced This Company to Revisit Their Processes

“The minute that we had this in hand and we’re looking at what had occurred, changes had been made by the very next day and meetings had been had between the various parties to look at the process and make process improvement,” she said. “So we didn’t wait. We put those in place immediately.”

Meyers Brothers Kalicka | Accounting Firm Meyers Brothers Kalicka Buys Time With Six Sigma

The back-room operations of Meyers Brothers Kalicka (MBK), a Holyoke-based accounting firm, has strengthened its relationship with clients and improved overall processing time thanks to Six Sigma. Taking the lead in her company’s process improvement journey, Melyssa Brown saw inefficiencies within MBK’s interactions with their clients and the unreliability of receiving, maintaining, and organizing documents accessed by multiple departments. By creating an online portal, employees are now able to access a client’s information in one place. As a result of the firm’s implementation of Six Sigma, MBK has seen more positive interactions with clients and has allowed employees to make better use of their time.

Technical Debt | Does Your Firm Have Technical Debt?

Technical debt is a common and highly specialized term in the software development industry. “Lower is better, and if it’s high, then you may have one or more technical debts in place.” The best way to discover this kind of debt and take action is with Lean Six Sigma.

Vantage Agora | 3 Ways a Manufacturing Quality Tool Applies to the Insurance Industry

There is a high error rate in the insurance industry. With that being said, there is a lot of room for improvement. With the opportunity to improve being so high, Sudhir Achar, owner of Vantage Agora, believes that turning to Six Sigma will improve his company’s quality and operations. Achar also believes that a Six Sigma level of performance should be sought after in the entire insurance industry.

WHAT IS  LEAN SIX SIGMA  ?

Lean Six Sigma is a proven project management methodology that empowers organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity and create more value for customers—in any industry or job function. At GoLeanSixSigma.com, we provide industry-recognized Lean Six Sigma Training & Certification.

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YOU’LL LOVE  WORKING WITH US 

GoLeanSixSigma.com’s flexible approach to learning gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of when you can review the course material, apply what you learn and take the certification exams. This was important to our busy team. The previous training we went through was a week-long boot camp that took us away from our daily work and there was no commitment to do any project afterwards. With GoLeanSixSigma.com, we were applying the tools to a real project which solidified learning much better.

GoLeanSixSigma.com’s courses have put our teams on the right continuous improvement path. I had a lot of fun working on my project and their templates made the process so much easier and enjoyable. I’m really looking forward to upcoming projects.

Ken Sheriff - GoLeanSixSigma.com

My staff and I are very happy with the Green and Black Belt programs with GoLeanSixSigma.com. The material is easy to follow and the examples around Bahama Bistro are very helpful.

As an instructional designer with 30 years of experience in education and adult learning, this is one of the best e-learning experiences I have had the pleasure of completing.

Dave Stilchen - GoLeanSixSigma.com

After completing our Green Belt Training through GoLeanSixSigma.com, each of our Lean Six Sigma projects resulted in decreasing steps in a process, improving quality to customer satisfaction, and saved resources.

Jennifer Traufler - GoLeanSixSigma.com

I thoroughly enjoyed your Green Belt course and believe it to be comprehensive and very easy to use.

We have found the resources and templates particularly valuable as we build our team and establish standard work for our projects.

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