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A highly specialized and valued continuous improvement specialist, the Lean Black Belt is effective on the front line leading high-impact transformational improvement projects and equally adept working with the senior leadership team to design, deploy, and manage their Lean operational excellence strategic plan. Building on the Lean Green Belt comprehensive suite of improvement tools and methods, Black Belts create a more profound understanding of process and value stream behaviour by employing analytical methods using process data.
A Lean Black Belt possesses a comprehensive understanding of the complete Lean body of knowledge and basic quality, change management, and project management principles, tools and methods. The Black Belt is a quality and improvement coach to Yellow Belts, Green Belts, and managers alike.
The pinnacle of Lean achievement, the Black Belt leads complex, value stream focused, transformational projects, employing analytical methods, a broad suite of improvement tools and methods, and has the ability to enable others to visualize the “true” current state of operations and inspire them a vision a future state where process waste has been eliminated, process output has been optimized, and customers needs and expectations consistently being met.
Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
Note: The Lean Belt program is a progressive learning path. Apart from the first course, each course has a prerequisite, the preceding course(s) or equivalent training is required before registering;
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