Course Description

We work with Lean Six Sigma simultaneously at five organizational levels:

White Belt
Top management is at school learning about fact based leadership, strategy development and deployment in order to sharpen business processes and stay competitive. This has been done with particular success at Vestas Wind systems (200 Presidents and VPs incl. the CEO & CFO) in 2008, and at Danfoss Automatic Controls, where 20 people from top management went through training.

Yellow Belt
People from all over the organization can participate. They get introduced to the Lean Six Sigma business philosophy and their role in the deployment, particularly the team member role in relation to Green Belt Six Sigma projects. They are taught specific tools such as Six Sigma process mapping, root cause analysis and graphs in relation to Six Sigma statistics. During training they undertake a specific task to be solved through team work, e.g. to reduce variation in a business process, to conduct a Kaizen DMAIC workshop, to eliminate root causes for variation, to implement an action plan using the FMEA approach etc. In Denmark Yellow Belt training has been integrated with adult teaching programs allowing public funding (AMU courses).

Green Belt
People are normally trained on open courses held three times a year, rf. to www.lean6sigma.eu for content and calendar. Green Belt is the Six Sigma project management education the enables people to conduct projects with data analyses, team work, process mapping, FMEA etc. 2 x 5 days with 3- 4 weeks in between, and a project presentation 4-6 months later with certification. Green Belt training can be conducted internally with 10 or more managers (Champions) or project managers to be certified.

Black Belt
Until today all Black Belts have been trained on open courses held once a year for 2 weeks. Green Belt level skills are a prerequisite. Black Belts are program managers with a broad range of skills, both in terms of management, motivation and leadership, as well as the ability to perform advanced data analysis and designing experiments. Several consultant colleagues from the Lean community have been through Black Belt training, including people from Grontmij Carl Bro and Implement.

Master Black Belt
This is a program that will be launched in the autumn of 2010, when certified Black Belts require these additional skills. People will go through two additional modules: Six Sigma QFD and Design for Six Sigma. Certified MBBs are required to have conducted one or more Black Belt programs with supervision of at least 10 projects in total. They have to have verifiable teaching and management skills and being involved in Six Sigma programs for at least three years.