Ali @safaval1  Reputation - 20 Rank - Aluminum | I work for a dairy processing plant. We had had an explosive growth over the past two years and now I would like to propose to senior leadership team to implement six sigma. But before I do that, I want to find out more about this certification as well as my role.
I understand that this program covers all departments in an organization.So how would they all get trained? is this a course that you have to take? is it online? Also I was wondering is there a position in a organization that solely deal with six sigma programs? |
George Aslinger @gaslinger  Reputation - 16 Rank - Aluminum | Most implementations start Top Down and a training source is selected to provide company wide training. Often this is a cousulting firm or a previously trained Master Black Belt is hired. There are online sources available often used to create a blended training/learning process.
Many organizations have an Operational Excellence/Continuous Improvement/Six Sigma deployment leader position. In smaller organizations this role may be a joint role with Quality or Operations management. |
Mike Carnell @Mike-Carnell Reputation - 2401 Rank - Silver | @safaval1 – I am going to make some assumptions based on exactly what you wrote as opposed to asking some questions. You want to do a Six Sigma deployment so you are going to go get some people certified? If you only knew what a superficial view this was but it is a common view. Several months from know you will have a bunch of people certified and no business results or at least not enough to rationalize the cost of your program. We have a guy here in Texas that is pretty smart named T Boone Pickens. He has a saying “A fool with a plan will outsmart a genious with no plan”. That may not be dead on but close. You need a plan. That is a plan that is more comprehensive than let’s train a bunch of people and do some projects. You need to have some executive level direction about why they are doing it – it sounds like you haven’t even proposed it to them. You need to develop project pipelines and the way you will value projects. You need to train the management team (pay attention to the ones in the middle they can kill this whole thing pretty quickly), etc. The best planned deployment I ever saw was Ken Meyer at GE Aircraft Engines. He is a retired General. Just a guess but that is probably where he got his planning skills. He had an entire plan and metrics to evalute the deployment and made adjustments as it went. You may get lucky and pull it off with your plan but it is more like playing Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol. The odds are against you. If you want to discuss this futher you can contact me through this website. Just my opoinion. Good luck. |
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