Lean Six Sigma Certification

For years companies have struggled with the dilemma of which improvement program to adopt: Lean or Six Sigma. There really is no dilemma. It is not a question of Lean versus Six Sigma, it's a question of how do you integrate the two for long term stability and growth. Six Sigma and Lean complement each other to provide the best operating performance possible. For example: If you have big problems that you don't know how to solve, use Six Sigma. If you want to surface and resolve the small day-to-day problems, use Lean. Lean Six Sigma is a process which achieves business success by attacking critical problems through a rigorous and fact-based methodology built upon a culture of lean. Consider Lean and Six Sigma as two legs of a three legged stool. It's tough to find and maintain the right balance. Balancing lean tools and techniques and six sigma might give you the best of both worlds, but not the best of all worlds. The essential third leg is Lean Systems thinking which drives the cultural transformation of your company and is the basis of your business operating system.

ADI is unique in its ability to help companies build the stable "3 legged stool". Our proven approach has resulted in many great success stories:

• A major utility utilizing our approach was able to systematically reduce discrepancies in third party billings to enhance revenues by $1.4 million a year, and for every year there after, while also driving significant waste our of the process.
• A fortune 500 food processing company was faced with a regulatory requirement to "clean their system every 72 hours of production". They attacked the problem like a NASCAR pit crew utilizing lean thinking with lean and six sigma tools and were able to improve up-time by 33% and eliminate backlog

These companies used our eight-phase road map for implementation:

1. Set the Stage,
2. Define the Opportunity,
3. Measure for Current Reality,
4. Analyze for Root Cause,
5. Improve with Countermeasures and not just Containment,
6. Control for Validity,
7. Standardize what's Proven, and
8. Integrate throughout the Enterprise.

The ADI approach is simple. It starts with the developing the people. Develop the culture and skills in the Champions, Masters, Black Belts, Green Belts and all employees specifically required for them to be a major contributor for continuous improvement in the organization in their areas and at their levels. Lean Six Sigma Thinking is for everyone, however, lean and six sigma skills development is situational.