OUR DEPLOYMENT MODEL

As pressure to deliver results increase, many organizations are challenged with driving enterprise-wide improvements. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a methodology and philosophy of continuous improvement that requires a mindset of rigor and discipline at all levels of the organization to produce positive outcomes that are tangible and sustainable.
A successful deployment of LSS requires more than an emphasis on training staff in the LSS skill set. A productive and sustainable deployment requires a strategic organizational approach, supporting enterprise-wide processes, and a solid specific infrastructure working in conjunction with processes for LSS project selection and prioritization. These steps are followed by project execution and tracking.

Each component of the deployment must be aligned with organizational key performance indicators in order to deliver and sustain business impacts beyond one-time improvements. The LSS deployment approach must be driven through the leadership team. This requires a leadership paradigm shift and a behavior change in their commitment, clarity and consistency of LSS and continuous improvement.

Leadership must align LSS with strategic goals, and identify critical milestones of successful transformation of the organization. This begins with developing a vision and strategy for change going from the current state to the future state vision.
Three Key Components for Deployment:

• Strong Foundation – Leadership
> Vision / Strategic planning (4-5 year plan)
> Strategic Alignment & Policy Deployment
> Focus on the customer
> Baseline Assessment
> Clarification of Lean foundation and alignment of Six Sigma = LSS
> Key Performance Metrics
> Stakeholder analysis
> Communication Plan
> Understanding how to Facilitate Culture Change

• Core Skills – Infrastructure
> Developing everyone to be a leader
> Champion Workshops
> Metric Alignment to departments
> Visual Workshop – Dashboards for Tier 1,2,3
> Project Selection /Alignment
> Training / Mentoring
> Rapid Improvement Events - Kaizen / BB/ GB Projects
> Project Execution

• Mindset – Center of Excellence / Sustainability
> Becoming a learning organization
> Employee empowerment / idea generation
> Coaching and mentoring
> Confidence in tools & methods
> Focus on continuous monitoring
> Utilizing of Basic Problem Solving by everyone
> Establish a replication roadmap to replicate improvements
> Maturity Assessments

Five Key Components for Change
> Area Development – Key emphasis on core processes and alignment to overall strategic goals. This includes resources plans, program office oversight, voice of the customer, tollgate reviews, defining roles & responsibility and project selection methodology.

> Mechanical Compliance – Alignment of key metrics to data collection. Development of departmental standards & practices, and employee skills / proficiency matrix to ensure overall compliance.

> Understanding – Developing an understanding of the vision, customers, data collection, expected outcomes, and how you fit into your role and responsibility. Visual workplace that identifies Tier 1 (Employee), Tier 2 (Supervision), and Tier 3 (Management) dashboards aligned to strategic goals based on departmental metrics.

> Utilization – LSS and continuous improvement becoming embedded into the culture. Confidence in tools, methods and methodology common place across the enterprise.

> Perpetuation – Part of enterprise DNA; how we do things. Leanings and opportunities are identified and transferred throughout the value stream.