The Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations

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Upcoming Sessions
	June 1-3, 2008 $ 3,500
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! Apply for OM Week
	June 1-6, 2008 $7,920
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
	Link day-to-day operational details to business strategies
	Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
	Focus on operating policies that represent key leverage points with respect to the bottom line
	Work with your systems’ natural tendencies to develop customized policies for your environment
	Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening cycle 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.

This framework includes the Business Process Flow Paradigm which examines an organization as a collection of business flows with a critical link between operational drivers and strategic success. We analyze a set of "laws" representing the core science of lean operation--which describe the underlying behavior of manufacturing and service systems, including the fundamental relationships between performance measures such as throughput, work-in-progress, flow time, and process variability.

Taken together, these tools provide a firm scientific foundation for the practice of lean six sigma operations.

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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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