I received an e-mail from Sharon de Courla-Souza, who is the head of Process Excellence, the Americas, for Tomson Reuters. She is on a quest to standardize master black belt (MBB) certification for her organization. She is proposing the following criteria, and would like members of the Financial Services Business Transformation roundtable to provide her with feedback on her criteria:
Projects Completed: 5
Projects Coached to Completion: 50
Classroom Training Received: 20 days BB + 20 days MBB
Classroom Training Delivered: 5 days
Written Exam: yes
Panel Interview: yes
Black Belt Experience: Minimum 2 years
If you would like to respond, please send an e-mail to me or to sharon.decorla-souza @ thomson reuters.com.
Teresa McMahon who is the director of the State of Iowa Deparment of Management’s lean initiative sent me this link to her article that is located on LEI’s website: Lean Thinking In Government: State of Iowa . Theresa has spearheaded the Lean Government Collaborative which was formed with Six private companies that include members from Wells Fargo, Rockwell Collins, EDS, Pella Corp., John Deere, and the State of Iowa. If you are interested in joining her collaboration and have business operations in Iowa, please contact me or Teresa for more information on how to join her group.
I have put together an outline of topics that are included in my continous process improvement course.
To view or download the outline click on the link below:
Course Syllabus (25k Word Document)
This course is designed to be completed in four 1 1/2 hour segments in a classroom or over the web. I also have a deep dive 3 day course that covers an introduction of continuous process improvement. Please contact me for more specifics.
The Lean Office has arrived! The 21st century will have businesses competing like never before. This competition will required more streamlined processes throughout all industries and their associated processes. The businesses that survive will embrace the tools comprised within the Lean Office. The Lean Office tools are: value stream mapping, takt time, pitch, Just-In-Time, continuous flow, standard work, runners, cycle time, data collection, document tagging, kanbans, in-process supermarkets, First In First Out, measurements, office layout, office file system, pull systems, visual controls, and last but not least 5S.
