Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Build practical Lean Six Sigma skills to understand customer needs, analyze processes, use data effectively, identify root causes, eliminate waste, improve flow, and create sustainable process improvements.

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Course curriculum

1. Lesson 00: Welcome to the Course
2. Lesson 01: Reading - How to Use This Course: Navigation, Pacing, and the Pathway Gate
3. Lesson 02: Meet Your Method: A Visual Overview of the Course
4. Lesson 03: Before You Begin: About This Self-Assessment
5. Lesson 04: Pre-Course Improvement Readiness Diagnostic
6. Lesson 05: Recommended Learning Path
1. Lesson 06: Defining Lean Six Sigma
2. Lesson 07: The Underlying Principles
3. Lesson 08: Reading - The Method Definition and Principles Guide
4. Lesson 09: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on the Method and Principles
1. Lesson 10: Identifying Your Process Customers
2. Lesson 11: Understanding Your Customers' Needs
3. Lesson 12: Reading - The Customer Identification and Requirements Tools
4. Lesson 13: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Customers and Requirements
5. Lesson 14: Hands-On Learning: The Customer Requirements Definition
6. Lesson 15: Quiz - Principles, Customers, and Requirements
1. Lesson 16: Understanding the Process as It Runs
2. Lesson 17: Managing People and Change
3. Lesson 18: Reading - The Mapping Approaches and Change Guide
4. Lesson 19: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Process and Change
1. Lesson 20: Gathering Data You Can Rely On
2. Lesson 21: Presenting Data That Informs a Decision
3. Lesson 22: Reading - The Data Collection Plan and Display Guide
4. Lesson 23: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Data Collection and Display
5. Lesson 24: Hands-On Learning: The Process Map and Data Collection Plan
6. Lesson 25: Quiz - Process Understanding, Change, and Data
1. Lesson 26: Identifying Root Causes
2. Lesson 27: Identifying Non-Value-Adding Steps and Waste
3. Lesson 28: Reading - The Root Cause Tools and Value Classification
4. Lesson 29: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Root Causes and Waste
1. Lesson 30: Getting the Process to Flow
2. Lesson 31: Thinking Differently and Generating Solutions
3. Lesson 32: Reading - The Flow Levers and Solution Generation Methods
4. Lesson 33: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Flow and Solutions
5. Lesson 34: Hands-On Learning: The Root Cause and Waste Analysis
6. Lesson 35: Quiz - Root Causes, Waste, Flow, and Solutions
1. Lesson 36: Prevention and Design for Six Sigma
2. Lesson 37: Design Thinking and Agile Improvement
3. Lesson 38: Reading - The Prevention, Design, and Agile Guide
4. Lesson 39: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on Prevention and Design
1. Lesson 40: Running Rapid Events and DMAIC Projects
2. Lesson 41: Sustaining Gains and Leading Deployment
3. Lesson 42: Reading - The DMAIC Phases and Sustainment Checklist
4. Lesson 43: Practice Quiz - Practice Check on DMAIC and Sustainment
5. Lesson 44: Hands-On Learning: The Improvement and Deployment Plan
6. Lesson 45: Quiz - Prevention, Design, DMAIC, and Sustainment
1. Lesson 46: Course Outro and Next Steps
2. Lesson 47: The Part of Tens
3. Lesson 48: The Lean Six Sigma Toolkit on One Page
4. Lesson 49: Non-Graded Project: An Improvement Project on a Real Process

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Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Course curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Entire Course

Chapter 2: Defining Lean Six Sigma and Its Principles

Chapter 3: Identifying Customers and Their Real Requirements

Chapter 4: Understanding the Process and Managing the Change

Chapter 5: Gathering and Presenting the Data

Chapter 6: Finding Root Causes and Identifying Waste

Chapter 7: Achieving Flow and Generating Solutions

Chapter 8: Prevention, Design Approaches, and Agile

Chapter 9: Running DMAIC and Sustaining the Gains

Chapter 10: Course Wrap-Up and Next Steps

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