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Scott Arnold Jane Marshall Principal Business Process Solutions Kim Niles Steve Null Six Sigma Champion Booz Allen Hamilton Paul Strong Six Sigma Champion Qualcomm
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What is Lean Six Sigma? With the increasingly competitive landscape, rapid and significant productivity improvement is becoming a requirement for company survival. Six Sigma tools and techniques, in conjunction with methodologies common to Lean practice, have fostered a powerful performance system to enable this productivity growth. Lean Six Sigma provides the basis for the strong complementary relationship between process, quality, and performance leading to sustainable competitive advantages. Lean Six Sigma and its practitioner Black Belts are the ultimate source for rapidly improving enterprise performance in cost-effective and timely ways. Program Description The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course develops understanding and enables employment of one of today's proven approaches to maximizing productivity through control over process design and execution. Lean Six Sigma drives towards results-based organizational effectiveness through both product and process improvement and increased profitability for its practitioner companies. Lean Six Sigma and its frontline Black Belts can be the source of revolutionary and rapid process improvements leading to dramatic increases in both productivity and profitability. Program Objectives
Who Should Attend? This Black Belt certification program is appropriate for any team or individual responsible for managing or participating significantly in manufacturing, design, or administrative activities. Appropriate participants would include managers and professionals in key functional areas such as product design, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, manufacturing and quality engineering, finance and business administration) improvement team, or task force leaders and members, as well as individuals who manage and supervise various business, product development and manufacturing operations and/or improvement initiatives. The diverse participant industries provide for cross learning and application of principles as well as identification of Lean Six Sigma best practices. Prerequisites: All students must have a project backed by their organization, some familiarity with statistics, and basic project management/leadership skills.
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Program Logistics Designed for working professionals, the program's instructional modules and final project presentations are spread out over a three month period. The class meets once per week, on Fridays, to allow structured implementation of Lean Six Sigma projects and resulting in actual project ROI and certification of company Black Belts. FREE Information Session - Prospective students and sponsors, please join us for a free information session where you can find out more about the program and meet the lead instructor. This session is not required for enrolled students, although they are also welcome. To attend, please RSVP to . Fall 2008 date: Wednesday, August 20, 8:00-9:00AM. Sponsor Meeting - This meeting brings together corporate sponsors and mentors to define supporting roles in the participants' organizations. This is for sponsors/students who are already enrolled in the program. We have now incorporated the sponsor meeting into the first session of the class. All sponsors of enrolled students are invited to attend the first hour of class on Friday, September 18, 2009, 9:00-10:00AM. Instruction - Class sessions are scheduled on Fridays from 9:00AM-4:00PM. Fall 2009 dates: September 18 - December 11, 2009 (no class meeting on November 27). Final Project Reports - The program concludes with student Project Report presentations demonstrating effects on business performance. This session is required for all students wishing to receive a certificate, as the project is used as the major criterion for grading. Fall 2009 date: December 11, 2009. Program Materials - Course fee includes the following materials:
Program Location - all sessions held at the UCSD Extension Sorrento Mesa Center, 6925 Lusk Blvd., San Diego, 92121 (see map).
Faculty Advisor and Lead Instructor Jane Marshall, MBA, CPIM, Jonah is a Principal of Business Process Solutions, a consulting and education firm specializing in improving business performances by identifying customer driven processes and reducing non-value add activities for increased productivity and profitability. She is an internationally recognized management consultant and educator with more than 20 years of experience in guiding organizations with Lean Six Sigma implementations, TOC strategic planning and deployment, Project management, and cost effective Supply Chain programs. She is an instructor for UCSD Extension co-developing the Lean Enterprise Program and Global Supply Chain Management programs and an adjunct professor at SDSU in Strategic Operations Management. She has also lectured for APICS, ASQ, and SOLE in the Southwest US and Mexico. Co-Instructor Kim Niles has a Masters degree in Quality Science with emphasis in Six
Sigma. He has taught approximately 1600 people, has studied under several
related gurus, has performed over 150 designed experiments, and has Application Process The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program costs $4,995. This includes all course materials, textbooks, software, lunches, and certificate fee. UC San Diego Extension accepts cash, checks, credit cards (Visa/MC/AmEx/Discover), and company POs. If paying by PO, please include a copy of the PO with your application. Checks should be made payable to UC Regents. To enroll in this course, please complete the Enrollment Form in its entirety. Questions? Contact Margaret Gibert at mgibert@ucsd.edu or (858) 882-8018.
Note: Enrollment is limited to 15 students and there is a limit of 5 from any one company. |
