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Established in 1960, UC San Diego has been shaped by exceptional scholars who aren’t afraid to take risks and redefine conventional wisdom. Today, as one of the top 15 research universities in the world and #2 in the U.S., they are driving innovation and change to advance society, propel economic growth and make the world a better place. Over 650 companies have been launched by or use technology produced by faculty, staff and alumni, and 16 Nobel Laureates have taught at UCSD.
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California, and is the largest and oldest higher education institution in San Diego County. SDSU is the number one small research university in the United States for four academic years in a row. Committed to serving the diverse San Diego region, SDSU ranks among the top ten universities nationwide in terms of ethnic and racial diversity among its student body, as well as the number of bachelor’s degrees conferred upon minority students.
Designated as a top-tier research institution, Florida International University emphasizes research as a major component in the university’s mission. With a student body of nearly 54,000, FIU is among the top 10 largest universities in the nation and have collectively graduated more than 200,000 alumni. In 2015 and 2016, FIU held the #1 Passing rate for the College of Law on the Florida Bar Exam.
Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. Serving the higher education, K-12, professional, library and workforce training markets worldwide, Cengage creates learning experiences that build confidence and momentum toward the future students want.
Integris is a purpose-driven organization, founded to expand the existence of healthy organizations and great places to work. All our services are designed to drive innovative thinking, meaningful results and personal growth. The concepts shown below represent the foundations on which our business is built.
Implementation Partners exists to inspire every leader to transform their organizations and deliver exceptional business results by developing efficient and effective processes and giving every employee a chance to contribute their best work on an engaged, sustainable, winning team. The company has pioneered the concepts of Engaged Team Performance (ETP), combining Lean Six Sigma process streamlining with high-performing team concepts to deliver transformational consulting and training services for clients.
IntrapriseTechKnowlogies is a non-traditional CPA firm specializing in organizational development and innovation management services for small businesses, nonprofits, and the middle market. Their versatile technology expertise is balanced with knowledge management and enterprise risk management—right sized for smaller organizations.
Lean Tech AS helps manufacturing companies become more competitive by reducing cost, improving quality and increasing productivity by providing Lean Six Sigma training, consultancy and analytical problem solving. Lean Tech is located in Norway.
Lean Management Lab is group of Lean Six Sigma enthusiasts that works with continuous improvement consultancy and professional education in Brazil and USA.
Develop Your is a UK based Business Improvement Consultancy, specializing in manufacturing and helping businesses to become Lean and use Six Sigma techniques to deliver sustainable improvement.
Jigsaw Consulting works with organizations to develop an “Organizational Growth Mindset.” Their clients are successful businesses, and Jigsaw works with them to harness their existing strengths & talents to drive improvement. Jigsaw’s team of partners have extensive commercial experience and apply this to organizations through coaching, training and consultancy. Using tools from Lean, Six Sigma & Design Thinking and Techniques such as coaching, mentoring & training, Jigsaw is in the unique position to guide the person and the process through the change cycle.
Workforce Equanimity helps businesses to design and implement Intentional Learning Organizations. The consultancy has successfully built programs for private and public organizations that look for measurable results in workforce development. Our facilitators, consultants, and executive coaches bring focus to building a culture of dignity in the workforce. Workforce Equanimity – Building People Building Business.
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If we’re able to change this process, get the buy-in, if you’re able to show your team or who is ever involved in the process how it will positively affect them, they’re more likely to say, “OK, this maybe work and maybe on top of my day-to-day responsibilities, but if I can see the benefit or the potential benefit,” they’re more likely to do it.
...it definitely makes me look at everything with having the [Lean] Six Sigma in mind at the same time. So no matter what I’m doing, I feel like I’m thinking, “OK, what is the easiest and most efficient way to do this?” No matter what it is.
The face-to-face experience that classroom training provides is tremendously beneficial. Having the onsite training removed the distractions of the office allowing our candidates to focus on the learning experience in order to assimilate the Green Belt methodology.
Our Green Belt candidates were immediately able to apply the tools and concepts to their certification projects. Having them all together created a bond between them resulting in a network of practitioners. We paired that with some excellent one-on-one coaching. After the candidates returned to their day-to-day jobs, the access to the online training material/tools/templates, coupled with the motivation they provided to each other, resulted in successful completion of their Green Belt Certification Projects.
Great skills, great projects, great experience!
We chose to run the Onsite Green Belt Workshop one-day-a-month which worked really well for us. It provided the candidates a process improvement framework and time to work on individual projects while the entire group got feedback and stayed engaged. With some one-on-one coaching, the group brought their projects to complete success, while building an invaluable skill set along the way.
The team reduced the time to hire, increased enrollment, reduced billing errors and secured valuable grants with improved reporting and that’s not even a quarter of what they accomplished. This has been a valuable journey for a growing nonprofit!
So the benefits to our agency is that we have improved meeting the DPH, Department of Public Health, requirement for the timely discharge of early intervention children. So we’re freeing up space in the files and DPH I’m sure is going to be pleased when they see that our percentage has increased in getting those discharge forms in a timely way.
GoLeanSixSigma.com met our interests of providing an affordable training option with flexible time commitments for participants that could be customized a bit to our needs. My favorite part was being able to complete my online content anytime that worked for me.
The group facilitation was tailored to our team, using our project work for discussion and team learning. Tracy O’Rourke from GoLeanSixSigma.com talked us through content, answered questions, posed project questions, and truly helped us to apply tools to our process improvement projects. This made the learning applicable immediately and we all got to experience process improvement in our daily work.
So I’m a huge coffee drinker and I go down the street, I’m going to be honest, and I will sit and order my coffee and I will watch all the workers just running around and running around and I’m just thinking of back to the Bahamas and the bistro and going like, “Oh, they should really do a Lean Six Sigma training here because there are just so many extra steps being taken and stuff just isn’t where it should be as far as the coffee being at this end and the creamer being at the other end.”
I would say just know you’re probably going to come up against resistance if you are the first Green Belt in your section or agency, whatever it may be. But just try to reiterate to people that like Tracy said, it’s not the person that we’re trying to eliminate. They’re not the problem. The process is the problem.
I think the hardest thing for me at first was to switch gears between the manufacturing thought process and apply it to office processes for me. It was very easy for me to comprehend how you could use these kinds of processes to see how many cars you turn out in an hour. But it was a little complicated for me to apply that in an office setting for me. But once I got the hang of it, I think I hit the ground running. Now, I do all kinds of things on a monthly basis for data for different things.
