Lean Six Sigma

Online

The Executive Education program at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business is proud to offer three online Lean Six Sigma courses led by a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Whether you are just getting started with lean methodologies or looking to become a master, these courses are designed to give you an edge in process improvement:

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
This course establishes the foundational, transformational concepts of Lean Six Sigma.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
This course builds on the concepts covered in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and explores advanced techniques for refining processes. The curriculum includes the materials covered in the standalone Building a Lean Enterprise course.

Building a Lean Enterprise
This standalone class is for leaders who just want to learn essential lean concepts for streamlining their organization.

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In this online program, you will learn to increase productivity and boost the bottom line by applying principles of Lean Six Sigma to your organization. This course will cover the foundational principles of the Lean Six Sigma methodology through video instruction, simulations, case studies, webinars, and personal mentorship. You will receive a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification when you pass the final exam. You will walk away with the confidence and knowledge required to contribute to improvement projects in your organization.

Content

  • People Are Our Greatest Asset

  • Standardized Work and Data Analytics

  • Just-in-Time Inventory Management

  • Scrum Project Management

  • Autonomation and Quality Management

  • Theory of Constraints

  • Gemba or Shop Floor Focus

  • Continuous Improvement

Impact

This course is designed for managers who want to improve processes and eliminate waste. It is especially useful for leaders seeking to optimize employee engagement and customer satisfaction. This course can benefit any administrator committed to standardizing and simplifying processes.

Personal Impact

  • Identify and solve complex operational problems

  • Refine personal workflows and operational processes

  • Harness data analytics to your advantage

  • Learn to lead cross-functional projects

  • Improve decision-making skills and deliver results

  • Recognize strategic threats and opportunities

  • Earn a world-renowned certification

Organizational Impact

  • Create a culture of critical, analytical thinking

  • Optimize processes and maximize productivity

  • Measure and improve customer satisfaction

  • Increase speed and improve quality

  • Eliminate unnecessary waste and reduce costs

  • Foster an environment of continuous improvement

  • Become an industry standard of excellence

Proof of accomplishment

In addition to developing knowledge and skills you will receive a certificate, a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile, and SHRM credits as proof of your accomplishment.

Lean Operations Management Certificate

Certificate

Lean Operations Management Digital Badge

LinkedIn Badge

40 SHRM Credits

Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP or SHRMSCP professional development credits (PDCs). This program is valid for 40 PDCs. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit SHRMCertification.org.

Logistics

100% Online

12 Weeks To Complete

5 Hours per Week

On-Demand Access

Instructor-Led

$2,195

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In this online program, you will learn to refine processes further and harness high-level Lean Six Sigma strategies for your organization. This course will cover these principals through video instruction, simulations, case studies, two one-on-one mentoring sessions, and a live project conducted at the your organization. The course also includes access to world-class software: a license to QI Macros and a year-long subscription to Palisade’s DecisionTools Suite. You will receive a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification when you pass the final exam. You will walk away with the confidence and knowledge required to lead improvement projects in your organization.

  • Participants must earn a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate before taking this course.

Content

Becoming a Black Belt

  • What is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt?
  • Continuous Improvement Projects
  • Leading a Turnaround

Modeling Risk and Uncertainty

  • Estimating Expected Returns
  • Decision Trees
  • The Newsvendor Model

Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Introduction to Simulations
  • The Monte Carlo Simulation
  • @Risk Simulation

Design of Experiments

  • Introduction to Design of Experiments
  • Single Factor Experiment Design
  • Full Factorial Experiment Design

Predictive Analytics

  • Discovering Relationships
  • Applying Predictive Analytics
  • Understanding Non-linearity

Distribution Modeling

  • Selecting a Distribution Model
  • Using @Risk for Distribution Fit
  • Distribution Families

Data-Driven Management

  • Attributes of Good Data
  • Mechanisms for Measuring Results
  • A Culture of Continuous Improvement

Optimizing & Modeling
Simultaneous Decisions

  • Using Optimization
  • Developing Nonlinear Models
  • Creating Non-continuous Models That Work

  • This course also includes our Building a Lean Enterprise curriculum.

Impact

This course is designed for managers who want to refine processes further and discover new optimization opportunities. It is especially useful for leaders seeking to design reliable experiments, gather good data, and strategically interpret results. This course can benefit any administrator committed to continuous process improvement.

Personal Impact

  • Identify and solve complex operational problems

  • Refine personal workflows and operational processes

  • Harness data analytics to your advantage

  • Learn to lead cross-functional projects

  • Improve decision-making skills and deliver results

  • Recognize strategic threats and opportunities

  • Earn a world-renowned certification

Organizational Impact

  • Create a culture of critical, analytical thinking

  • Optimize processes and maximize productivity

  • Measure and improve customer satisfaction

  • Increase speed and improve quality

  • Eliminate unnecessary waste and reduce costs

  • Foster an environment of continuous improvement

  • Become an industry standard of excellence

Proof of accomplishment

In addition to developing knowledge & skills you will receive a certificate, a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile, and SHRM credits as proof of your accomplishment.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate

Certificate

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt LinkedIn Badge

LinkedIn Badge

40 SHRM Credits

Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP or SHRMSCP professional development credits (PDCs). This program is valid for 40 PDCs. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit SHRMCertification.org.

Logistics

100% Online

12 Weeks to Complete

3-4 Hours per Week

On-Demand Access

Instructor-Led

$3,695

Register Now

In this online program, you will learn how to map processes for your organization and plan holistic improvements. You will learn to identify which processes are adding value for your customers and which ones are creating waste. You will gain tools and techniques for improving flow and quality control. You will learn how to synthesize these strategies into highly focused, collaborative plans. This will be accomplished through video instruction, case studies, personal mentorship, and a live project.

Content

Value Stream Mapping

  • The Current-State Map
  • What Makes a Value-Stream Lean?
  • The Future-State Map

Creating Flow

  • Creating Continuous Flow
  • Creating a Level Pull System
  • Making Materials Flow

Zero Quality Control

  • Inspection Systems
  • Zero Quality Control Systems
  • Using Poka-Yoke (Mistake Proof) Systems

The A3 Problem-Solving Methodology

  • The A3 Methodology
  • Completing an A3
  • Implementing the A3 Process

Impact

This course is designed for managers who want to make big-picture improvements and implement lean thinking in their organization. It is especially useful for leaders seeking to understand and optimize flow in their value stream. This course can benefit any administrator interested in a holistic approach to process improvement.

Personal Impact

  • Map processes and envision improvements

  • Identify critical tasks and eliminate unnecessary work

  • Develop big-picture strategic thinking

  • Prevent or quickly identify process errors

  • Align personal workflows with organizational goals

  • Create highly focused, collaborative plans

Organizational Impact

  • Streamline processes system-wide

  • Increase customer value and minimize waste

  • Optimize flow for greater flexibility & agility

  • Establish high-level inspection systems

  • Harmonize employee workflows and unify goals

  • Encourage collaborative, holistic problem solving

Proof of accomplishment

Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP or SHRMSCP professional development credits (PDCs). This class is valid for 40 PDCs. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit SHRMCertification.org.

Logistics

100% Online

12 Weeks To Complete

5 Hours per Week

On-Demand Access

Instructor-Led

$990

Register Now

  • This is the standalone version of our Building a Lean Enterprise course.

  • This course is also bundled with our online Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lean Six Sigma is a business strategy focused on process improvement and eliminating waste. This unique combination creates a competitive advantage that results in reduced costs, improved quality, and increased speed of delivery.

Countless organizations have successfully transformed their workflows with Lean Six Sigma methodologies. It is recognized worldwide in manufacturing, distribution, engineering, logistics, software development, retail, health care, and government industries. Lean Six Sigma is utilized by 82% of Fortune 100 companies, with an estimated global savings of $427 billion over the last 20 years.

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification represents a working proficiency in problem-solving, waste reduction, and process improvement. This certificate is recognized worldwide and offered by the David Eccles School of Business Executive Education program. The coursework covers essential skills required to improve customer satisfaction, personal performance, and operational efficiency.

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification represents a mastery of advanced tools and techniques used to lead teams and optimize processes. This certificate is recognized and respected worldwide. It is the capstone of the Lean Six Sigma courses offered by the David Eccles School of Business Executive Education program. The Black Belt coursework builds upon the foundational skills learned in Lean Sigma Six Green Belt trainings by adding advanced analytical tools that can be used to further refine processes. These skills are tested and fine-tuned through real-world projects.

Black Belt graduates will be able to confidently lead strategic-level continuous improvement projects, analyze complex business scenarios, develop leaders in the Lean Six Sigma methodology, and deliver substantial results for any organization. A recent study showed certified Black Belts saving their organization over $275,000 annually, in addition to their regular responsibilities.

Lean Manufacturing is a method designed to eliminate waste and optimize processes. It is based on decades of research and development in the manufacturing space. Although its roots can be loosely traced back to ancient assembly lines and directly traced to the Ford Motor Company, engineers at Toyota developed the heart of modern Lean Methodology in the 1950s and 60s. They pioneered important ideas about reducing waste, cutting costs, increasing speed, and improving customer satisfaction. These key concepts were later coined Lean Manufacturing by authors James P. Womack, Daniel Roos, and Daniel T. Jones.

Lean thinking can benefit a wide-variety of industries and organizations.  Although many of the core concepts behind modern Lean methodologies were forged in the manufacturing sector, the ideas have proven to have universal value. The key philosophy is process improvement; If you have processes that can be improved Lean principals can likely benefit you.

If you’re not sure if these courses would benefit you, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

A lean enterprise is an organization that applies lean methodologies across the entire value stream, not just individual processes. In other words, they utilize lean thinking to expand the benefits of lean manufacturing to the processes and goals of an entire organization. This big-picture approach focuses on what is adding value to the customer and streamlining operations. This holistic, cross-functional model has proven useful in all types of organizations, resulting in increased speed of delivery, improved quality, reduced costs, and the agility required to react to market changes.

Implementing this method goes beyond best practices; Creating a Lean Enterprise requires a paradigm shift in the way we think about and manage operations. During this course, you will shift your focus from managing separate processes, technologies, departments, and assets to optimizing the flow of materials, products, or services and information through the entire value stream. Whether you are working in a specific department or orchestrating organizational change, this course will help you develop an invaluable understanding of holistic operations and optimization.

Accreditation

Council for Six Sigma Certification Seal

Our program is taught by a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and our certificates are accredited by The Council for Six Sigma Certification. This accreditation is crucial: It is one of the most prominent and well-respected accreditations for Six Sigma programs. It is used and recognized in more than 165 countries worldwide.

Faculty

Robert Valentino

Robert Valentino, Master Black Belt

Robert Valentino is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Founder of Lean Coach®. He has established a solid track record as a trusted advisor and industry expert in applying Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and Scrum methodologies to help organizations and leaders at all levels successfully resolve real-world scenarios. Through coaching and facilitation, Robert has professionally developed leaders across a variety of industries.