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Six Sigma

Are you ready to simplify your company’s complicated processes to achieve dramatic increases in customer satisfaction while radically reducing costs and cycle time? If so, the Six Sigma Green Belt learning track is for you.

As you may know, Six Sigma tools and techniques are helping many successful companies—GE, AlliedSignal, Bank of America, Motorola and more—attain remarkable cost savings and quality improvement. Not just for manufacturing, Six Sigma can be used to dramatically improve the complicated and transaction-intensive processes associated with banking, insurance, telecomm and other service industries.

Courses

Accelerated Six Sigma

This course teaches the Six Sigma problem-solving process of DMAIC and helps you identify projects best suited for this methodology.

Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

In this 3-day course from UW-Madison Executive Education, David Antonioni introduces you the foundational tools of process including Charter, Scope, and WBS. Learn Gantt, Pert, Critical Path and more.

Six Sigma Data Measurement, Analysis and Tools

Focused less on theory and more on application, this course covers statistical process control concepts and provides you with the knowledge, tools and guidelines to apply them quickly and effectively within the DMAIC model.

Independent Faculty-Mentored Project

Apply what you have learned in the classroom and improve a broken process in your organization. Optionally receive help for our world class faculty as you work on the project.

Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing Excellence

Combining the power of the two leading process improvement methodologies, this course shows you how to employ Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma tools and concepts to transform a process from its current state to your future vision.

Six Sigma for Service and Healthcare Industries

The focus of this course is non-manufacturing processes in service, healthcare, government and back office administration. Apply proven Six Sigma tools, waste elimination, cycle time optimization, error proofing and visual controls to reduce hand-offs, time delays, poor customer service and costs.

Understanding and Applying DOE: Design of Experiments

This course can be used to help understand how variables interact and how to manage and control them for the desired results you're looking for.

Design for Lean Six Sigma

Achieve customer delight at the lowest cost and shortest time to market. This course can help you improve new product and service success rates, reduce costly redesigns and software patches and eliminate service headaches after launch.

Quantitative Methods for Process Improvement

This 20-30 hour online course gives participants the knowledge and tools to dissect complicated business problems and provide quantitative analysis to problems.

Project Leadership Communication

In this 3-day course from UW-Madison Executive Education, learn from Kathryn Jeffers how to build effective work relationships. This class develops your leader, manager, and facilitator roles.

Project Portfolio Management

In this 2-day advanced course from UW-Madison Executive Education, program managers and PMO directors learn the PPM process to manage projects as a portfolio of strategic resource allocation.

Professional Development Certificate

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