Our Services - Hoshin Consulting

Our Training Services

Tailor-made and team centred training, simplifying processes with our Lean Six Sigma toolbox.

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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Leading practical performance improvement through others.  Driving change and embedding solutions.  Our most popular programme for driving real change.  Taught with a fully provided set of interative templates, tailored for your business.

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Leading other practitioners to make substantial improvements.  Detailed understanding of statistical techniques to analyse data to drive focused improvement.  Taught with Minitab, SigmaXL or JMP.

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Bespoke Lean Six Sigma Training

Root Cause Analysis, Changeover Reduction, Business Process Reengineering, Line Balancing, Mistake Proofing, Business Process Mapping.....

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Master Black Belt

Leading improvement strategy through others, deploying policy across large or mutiple sites, advanced modelling techniques.

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Yellow Belt

Making focused improvements as part of a team.  Learning key improvement techniques including root cause analysis.  Practical and immediate change.

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Lean Awareness

Understanding the principles of Lean, 8 Wastes analysis, value and non-value add, concept of continuous improvement

Our Consultancy Services

Management consultancy informed by Lean Six Sigma and Hoshin Kanri techniques to help your business operate.

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Policy Deployment

Turning your strategic aspirations into practical annual plans and focused improvement using a structured Policy Deployment approach.  Bringing simplicity to complexity.

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Value Stream Mapping

Taking your key end to end processs to discover potential improvements - mapping current and future states and generating a clear improvement plan

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Lean Auditing

Looking at your Business Processes and measuring them against best practice.  Working with you to develop and deploy focused improvement.

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Meetings Cascade

Creating a visual one-page meetings cascade aligned to your business need.  Developing terms of reference for meetings to keep them short and to the point; confirming the process works.

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Process Optimisation

Using data analysis to understand current performance and sophisticated data analyis to help you redesign your process for optimum performance.  Use of statistical modelling packages as appropriate.

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Leader Standard Work

Managing senior leadership time to ensure control, improvement and engagement are given the appropriate focus.  Removing stress from your leaders to manage effectively.

“Success is no coincidence, but the result of smart decisions and visionary strategies.”

William DeForest

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Get in touch to discuss how we can help your business 

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E-mail: enquiries@hoshinconsulting.com

 

UK Based, Global Footprint

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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training

 

Teach

An 8-day course to take you from novice to expert, taught online or onsite, with a full set of materials and easy to use templates

  • Improvement Roles within an Organisation
  • Change and Project Management - Stakeholder Management, RACI, Gannt Charts
  • Teamwork and Improvement Leadership
  • Improvement Definition - Objective Alignment/Cascade, 5W1H / 5W2H, Cost of Poor Quality
  • Voice of the Customer - Needs Segmentation (Kano), Critical to Quality
  • Measurement Systems Analysis - Continuous Data and Discrete Data
  • Measurement - Data Types, Data Collection Plan, Data Stratification 
  • Process Capability - Cpk, Ppk, DPMO, OEE, Sigma Level
  • Root Cause Analysis - Fishbone, Cause-Effect Ranking, 5 Whys Method, Escape Point
  • Improvement - Lean Tools, Idea Storming, Idea Segregation, Ease-Effect Matrix
  • Design of Experiments (Basic) - Up to 3 variables, Optimisation
  • Control Plan, Statistical Process Control (Process Behaviour Analysis), Standard Work
  • Leverage and Replication
  • Knowledge test on day 8 leading to Knowledge Certification.

The approach is fully aligned to the International Standards for Lean Six Sigma Deployment (ISO 18404:2015 and ISO 13053:2011).

Deploy

Optional packages to coach attendees to plan and deploy a significant improvement within the business.

Practitioner Status

Practitioner level requires a presentation of an improvement project allied to a reflective professional discussion, leading to Practitioner certification.

 

 

 

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