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Which Cities Offer Lean Six Sigma Certification Classes?
Most large US and Canadian metro areas have Lean Six Sigma certification classes. SSDSI lists public training in cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington DC. It also lists...
Best Lean Six Sigma Training for Large Organizations
The best Lean Six Sigma training for a large organization is not the same program that works for one person. A large company needs five things an individual buyer does not: accreditation, group pricing at scale, multi-site delivery, a rollout plan, and post-class...
Quantitative Data: Definition, Types, and Six Sigma Use
Quantitative data is information expressed as a number, measured or counted, that supports real arithmetic. You can average it, add it, and run statistical tests on it. This is what separates it from qualitative data, which describes categories or labels instead of...
Abbott Six Sigma Case Study: Sigma Metrics in Diagnostics
Abbott applies Six Sigma differently than most companies: as a direct quality metric for its diagnostic instruments and assays, not only as an internal process improvement program. Abbott reports that 86% of its clinical chemistry assays achieve Six Sigma quality,...
Which Six Sigma Certification Offers the Best ROI?
There's no single certification that offers the best ROI for everyone, it genuinely depends on your starting point, career stage, and whether you'll actually apply the credential on real projects. Yellow Belt offers the highest percentage return, since it costs as...
Lean Six Sigma Workforce Development: Building Capability at Scale
Lean Six Sigma workforce development is the organizational practice of building tiered process-improvement capability across an entire workforce, not just certifying one or two individuals, so that continuous improvement becomes a distributed organizational skill...
Meet The Author
Kevin Clay, MBB
Kevin is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and President of Six Sigma Development Solutions, Inc. Moreover, Kevin has spent over 25 years in the trenches of process improvement and Six Sigma implementation. He’s seen everything from amazing successes to total disasters. As a Master Black Belt and executive consultant, he’s helped companies across all industries transform how they work.
What makes Kevin different isn’t his impressive resume. It’s his core belief that our biggest failures teach us the most valuable lessons. Through authentic conversations and real stories, he creates a space where professionals can learn from others’ mistakes without having to make them all themselves.
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