Lean SixSigma Green Belt .. I have it!

Hello World;
I am very happy to announce that I am now a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt!
It was a wonderful experience. The training was not easy because there is a LOT of theory to collect and learn in just a week, but it makes so much sense that I really do not understand why everyone else is not doing it.
Until this point I was an "autodidatta" (self learner), I was mapping based on what I was reading in books and using some of my Theory of Mediation experience - now, after taking this course, I feel more comfortable in leading sessions and be able to "map" any type of process.
The consultant we hired will, this coming week, make me test a new Lean Tool, Rapid Improvement Workshop (Kaizen), so that by the end of this coming week, I will have experienced, first-hand both main tools : Value Stream Mapping (VSM or VSA) and the RIW (Rapid Improvement Workshop).
More to come ....
Have a great week!

Lean SixSigma Green Belt

Just sharing .. at the end of next week I will have my Green belt Certification! WAY!

As usual we need to be aware of the excesses!

Lisa Boddell, in this very interesting article, http://www.fastcompany.com/1837301/5-ways-process-kills-productivity makes a very good point: excess of Lean/SixSigma is as bad as the lack of it!

I have been thinking about this lately. A colleague of mine told me that our daily activities are two: what we do (object of our work/job) and how we do it (the processes we use to deliver the service).
Now, as we apply Lean and Six Sigma, we should be aware of both elements and not push aside one to focus on the other:

• if we spend most of our time working on the final "object" of our work, we will never find time to improve it and we will use all short-cuts possible to reach our goal ... make a widget.
• on the other hand, if we invest too much time on improving the "way" we do things, we can easily fall into the productivity-killing stage the article talks about.

Again, it is all about ... balance - In Medio Stat Virtus.