Galenus-Privatstiftung and IPPD are happy to announce the
Lean Six Sigma Workshop
prior to theCRS DeChAt Local Chapter Meeting (Bern, 13th - 14th Feb 2025)
This workshop will take place in the morning of Thu, Feb. 13th in timely and geographical vicinity of the CRS venue.
This course is THE Introduction to Lean Principles and a start into Six Sigma!
What it is all about
This live activity workshop is an introduction to Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) principles. Its focus is on process understanding (mapping, analyzing, issue identification) and process improvement in order to maximize efficiency and reduce "waste".
As a combination of Lean and Six Sigma principles it is a structured approach to decision making and process improvement based on data and requirements.
Have Fun with Nessie
This game is intentionally not from your business area, so that you can experience LSS principles 1st hand in an unbiased manner and you will get easier insight to transfer tools and methodologies to your own real-life process improvement activities.
And one thing is for sure: This LSS introduction is A LOT OF FUN!
Learning objectives
With the Nessie game we exemplify this structured approach to identify, describe, analyze process issues, find opportunities for improvement, develop and implement optimizations. This game will teach you not to jump into conclusions without sufficient reflection of the problem state. The theoretical content will become live in a fun team simulation.
You will learn about powerful tools and methodologies for your own process improvement projects.
How you will achieve this
You will experience and learn e.g. about the following:
- Voice of the customer and critical customer requirements (VOC, CCR)
- Process mapping (Flow chart, swim lanes, Spaghetti, SIPOC)
- Timetraps, bottlenecks
- Waste (TIMWOODS)
- Adding value (VA, NVA, BNVA)
- Little‘s law, efficiency
- The value of Data
- One piece flow
- Push/Pull systems
- Line balancing
The setting
This game is intended for groups of 4-10 players each. We can efficiently host 2-3 groups at once.
Your facilitator will be Dr. Martin Bultmann, founder of the IPPD, long term employee in pharmaceutical industry, lecturer at the University of Heidelberg (and others), and ambassador of the Galenus foundation.
The Nessie game comprises an introduction into the LSS basics and two playing rounds, data capturing and evaluation in conjunction with the tools mentioned above; and a coffee break, of course. It is a lot of fun, time will fly by and before you realized it, you will have learned and experienced powerful tools and methods of process improvement.
Are you keen on playing the Nessie game?
If you're interested to experience LSS principles first hand, then please feel free to register via the CRS website.
Although registration is for free and open to anyone, the number of seats is limited to 20 players! Attendees of the CRS meeting will get priority and seats will be assigned on a first come first serve basis.