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The Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations

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  Supply Chain Management
  Driving Strategic Value from IT
 

Upcoming Sessions
  February 21-23, 2010
$ 3,800
  June 9-11, 2010
$ 3,800
Operations Management Week
Combines our Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations and Supply Chain Management programs into a week-long executive series with a 10% discount!
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  February 21-26, 2010
$ 8,460
  June 6-11, 2010
$ 8,460
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
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Link day-to-day operational details to business strategies
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Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
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Focus on operating policies that represent key leverage points with respect to the bottom line
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Work with your systems’ natural tendencies to develop customized policies for your environment
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Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening flow time, reducing variability, and improving quality
 
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Generate a sustainable advantage in cost, quality, speed, and customer service to achieve world-class performance. Using real-world case studies, group workshops, and animated computer simulation models, you explore a framework for diagnosing, improving, and designing effective processing systems and for identifying leverage points with the greatest impact on the bottom line.

The Business Process Flow Paradigm examines an organization as a collection of business flows with a critical link between operational drivers and strategic success. You will analyze a set of "laws" representing the core science of lean operation in a collaborative learning environment --which describe the underlying behavior of manufacturing and service systems.

Taken together, these tools provide a firm scientific foundation for the practice of lean six sigma operations to put into action in your organization

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Program Content

The Strategic Role of Operations

The Business Process Flows Framework

The Toyota Production System

Analyzing Process Flows

Science of Lean and Six Sigma

Basic Process Dynamics

Variability Basics

The Corrupting Influence of Variability

Push and Pull Production


Operations Management Week
You may combine this program with our Supply Chain Management program in Operations Management Week. When taken consecutively, these programs are offered at a 10% discount and provide an executive summary of the innovative approach to operations management used in the highly-acclaimed Kellogg MBA program.

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