Member Event: Business Transformation (Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt) SUNA Masterclass

Business Transformation is a virtual workshop to help businesses transform their processes to create a better working environment. The course will be delivered by Andy Skinner, Director, AMS Business Consultants who will enlighten you, engage you and show you how revolutionary this could be to you and your business.

You may have heard of Lean and Six Sigma techniques, but thought they are for big businesses and manufacturing or engineering companies. You may already know or be aware they are all about process improvement, but did you know these are just as important and effective in small and medium sized businesses?

In this half-day interactive workshop, Andy will show how hairdressers to hotels, from software to service companies or all sizes, shapes and set-ups, can make massive differences not just to their efficency, but to their cashflows, profits and turnover. These techniques are not just for the big boys, in fact, these could be the way to transform your business quicker than you thought and forever.

So whether you are a baker or barber, in logistics or lipsticks, this could be the best morning you ever spend on your business’s future.

Agenda and Content:

9:20 Zoom Room Opens

9:30 Introductions

9:40 Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma

• Understand the differences between Lean and Six Sigma and their origins
• Understand the objective of systematic problem solving.
• Apply data driven approaches for decision making and Understand Pre work analysis for a business case.
• Recognise the various Six Sigma roles

10:35 8 Wastes Explained

Be able to identify, define and eliminate waste within your business

• Unused capabilities
• Over production
• Delays
• Defects
• Inventory
• Waiting
• Excess Motion
• Transportation

11:30 Break

11:45 5S Explained

• Understand how making problems visible leads to improved quality
• Be able to apply 5s in your business/working environment
• Apply visual management effectively
• People, Quality, Delivery and Cost measures
• Voice of the Customer and Standard flow
• Understand how to identify business processes
• Identify Inputs and Outputs of your business processes and undertake high level process mapping
• Understand how customers view your business processes
• Gather Voice of the customer and translate into customer needs.
• Prioritise customer needs

12:45 Summary, Group Discussion of Outcomes and Key Takeaways and Q & A

13:00 Event Ends

Meet Andy Skinner, your mentor for the session

Andy specialises in business transformation, problem solving and increasing productivity or efficiencies within businesses. He is one of very few certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts in the UK.

He is skilled in identifying improvement opportunities, root cause analysis and risk in business processes.

This may be through process improvement, process management or the design of new processes across all areas of your business from Sales through to HR.

Clients will realise cost savings, productivity gains, waste reduction and identify development opportunities for both business processes and staff development.