Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma

About the Lean Six Sigma Group

We are joining together to network, to learn, to develop business, Jobs, careers, certification opportunities, to participate in best practice sharing, and maintain & build... more »
We are joining together to network, to learn, to develop business, Jobs, careers, certification opportunities, to participate in best practice sharing, and maintain & build new relationships.

We are a global community, uniting all White Belt (WB), Yellow Belt (YB), Green Belt (GB), Project Managers (PM), Black Belt (BB), Master Back Belt (MBB), Project Sponsor (PS), Deployment Champion (DC), Executive Leader (EL), Kaizen Practitioner or Facilitator or Lean Master, Auditors, Continuous Improvement, Management Consultants, Program Managers, Business Owners, Students, Professors, & Engineers.

We are Lean Six Sigma Professionals, Practitioners, & students of Lean Six Sigma, Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, Business Process Management, business analyst, BPM, Kaizen, TPS, Project Management, Change Management, Strategy, Supply Chain, Innovation, Quality Control, ISO, SCOR, TRIZ, Theory of Constraints, ToC, ITIL, CMMI, Malcolm Baldrige, TQM, Total Quality Management, Industrial Engineers, BPM, & Process Excellence.

We are a central hub for authors books, articles, white papers, podcasts, blogs, events and conferences. Consultants, and thought leaders are visiting regularly to support members in projects, productivity, training, skills development, coaching, mentoring, financials, statistical software, simulation, teams, organizational development, and more…. We practice in every Industry and have private subgroups for special topics such as Healthcare, Private Sector, Jobs, BPM, Information Technology, Kaizen, and more….

I am the Lean Six Sigma Group Founder and Master Black Belt and welcome your contribution to the community. We endorse the Process Excellence Network a division of IQPC. Members are encouraged to create a profile and post case studies and articles for others to benefit. To access this free content please take 2 minutes for a 1 time FREE registration at PEX Network http://tiny.cc/tpkd0

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Greg H.

Greg

Are you interested in a power point presentation on Risk Management: The Future of Quality. We gave it to Portland ASQ section last...

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Liviu I.

Liviu

Are you up to the challenge? Use just three words for a snapshot of what you do.

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Vishwadeep K.

Vishwadeep

I have collected Lean Six Sigma case studies & great articles from various sources. If you want them for your reference - respond to this...

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Nital Z.

Nital

Why Five S implementation does not sustain? Give only one reason.

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Steven B.

Steven

If you only had time to say three words to impact humanity what would it be?

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Steven B.

Steven

Do you have a method for your own process improvement?

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Bart H.

Bart

FREE 10 Minute Tutorial: LEAN Design compared to Lean Manufacturing. Please let me know if you are interested and I will send you the link.

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Kristine M.

Kristine

If you would like a copy of the process improvement presentation sharing

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Dhiraj B.

Dhiraj

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马吉帝　Majdi A.

马吉帝　Majdi

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Michael C.

Michael

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Steven B.

Steven

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Philip

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Jerry

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Vanessa L.

Vanessa

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Patrick M.

Patrick

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Sanjiv U.

Sanjiv

Can anyone define "SERVICES"?

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