“How can I provide a faster service to my customers without taking on more people?”
What does “work smarter not harder” really mean?
A common mistake in many workplaces is to take on too much work at the same time. The more products or projects being worked on in your organisation, the longer will be the average lead time (the start to finish time for the product or project to reach the customer). This is a mathematical inevitability (Little’s Law for those who want to delve deeper). Working harder won’t get everything to the customer more quickly if there are just too many products or projects in the system.
“How does the Theory of Constraints help me?”
Nowadays the largest use of lean thinking and Six Sigma is in information processing (transactional processes such as finance and insurance) and service industries (such as travel & vacation businesses). You may well be in this sort of industry. Silicon Beach provide excellent training courses on Lean Six Sigma with many participants from transactional and service organisations. In this training we learn that the “Theory of Constraints” is an essential partner to Lean Six Sigma and has a several powerful messages for supervisors and managers. One of these is about how many products or projects to have in the system at one time, and how to organise the work. Read the rest of "Theory of Constraints Part 1: Relay Runner"
As those of you who follow us on Facebook and Twitter will know, our Six Sigma trainers have gone in to overdrive in recent weeks to produce some fantastic new resources. Our Free Six Sigma Resources Sectionis now bursting at the seams with videos, templates, downloads and glossaries, along with a full guide to Lean Six Sigma and the DMAIC process.
Defining your Six Sigma project well from the start using a Project Charter is one of the keys to Six Sigma Success. Use this Free Project Charter Template to help you get off to the best start.
Lean and Six Sigma contain a wide variety of tools, and as such there are a lot of terms and abbreviations to understand. Get up to speed with them all using this comprehensive 33-page Lean Six Sigma Glossary
Completely new to Lean and Six Sigma? In this short, easy to follow interview our Six Sigma Black Belt Steve explains the methodologies and the differences between Lean and Six Sigma. Watch the video below, or follow the link above for the full transcript:
It’s a problem that affects all of us – especially if you’re a manager – there sometimes just aren’t enough hours in the day!
Our Time Management training in Brighton, Sussex, is one of our most popular programmes, and it’s always ways to make best use of time is always a lively discussion on our Management Skills Course.
Of course – not having enough time can often be indicative of other problems – perhaps you’re not being managed effectively by your own manager, or the business processes you’re working to aren’t as effecient as they could be (in which case you might think about arranging some Business Process Management training or Six Sigma training).
However – there are some small, useful, practical things that all of us can do to try to make the best use of the hours in our working day.
Here are 29 practical time management tips for coping with interruptions and obstacles which may get in the way of being a good time manager…
And with small group sizes, inspirational tutors with extensive real-world project experience and some of the best PRINCE2 pass rates in the country, our delegates always go home happy!
I recently attended (and passed) the PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner course at Silicon Beach and cannot recommend it enough. The brilliant trainer brought the subject matter to life making it interesting and integrating PRINCE2 into my day to day working life has been made so simple – a real life skill. A great location too – thank you Silicon Beach.
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In 2009, Hachette UK- the country’s largest publishing group – approached us to deliver Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training for their IT department.
This training was based around the IT department’s transactional processes, and was so successful that Hachette asked us to come up with some tailored Six Sigma training for their two distribution centres, Bookpoint and Littlehampton Book Services.
The Lean Six Sigma training programme we put together was completely bespoke, and contained extensive action learning, based around running real-life projects between the Lean courses.
Training at Bookpoint took place throughout 2009 and has not only shown real process improvements already, but has left Hachette with an internal Six Sigma training course that they can run themselves as new Six Sigma projects are launched, ensuring that process improvement is continuous.
And we’re already seeing promising signs of the same at Littlehampton Book Services, where training is almost complete.
For more information about how Six Sigma training could help your organisation, check out the courses we offer here, or contact Colin Welch on 01273 622272 / colin@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
So, you’re thinking of implementing a Six Sigma management system and providing Six Sigma training for your staff to help them to implement it? However, implementing Six Sigma successfully is about more than just training, so here are our top 10 tips to implementing Six Sigma successfully within your organisation.
In addition to our range of Six Sigma training courses, we can also provide private or bespoke training tailored to the needs of your business, and provide all the consultancy and assistance you need to implement Six Simga along the way. If you’re interested in learning more, call to speak to one of our Training Managers on 01273 622272, or e-mail info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
Our top 10 tips for getting the best from Six Sigma are:
OK, so there’s a recession on and we’re all trying to find ways to increase our revenues and profit. One way we can do that is make more sales, or find other ways to increase the money coming in.
However – another equally effective way to increase profit is to reduce outgoings, and a great place to start is to look at reducing waste in business processes.
This is where Lean Training can really help your business. Lean Principles will help you to identify where your processes are inefficient and where this is having the biggest impact on your customers.
Below we’ve provided a list of the 7 deadly wastes - if you recognise any of these in any of your business processes they’re most likely not as lean as they could be, and one of our practical Lean Training Courses could help you.
APMG have released a useful new Vodcast and White Paper about combining PRINCE2 with Six Sigma.
PRINCE2 is the industry standard methodology for Project Management, whilst Six Sigma is a statistical analysis tool and management system designed to streamline business processes by eliminating defects. The two methodologies are complementary, and these useful resources provide advice on how they can be best employed together…
What does “work smarter not harder” really mean?
So, you’re thinking of implementing a Six Sigma management system and providing 
OK, so there’s a recession on and we’re all trying to find ways to increase our revenues and profit. One way we can do that is make more sales, or find other ways to increase the money coming in.
APMG have released a useful new Vodcast and White Paper about combining 
