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The OU Lean Institute is pleased to open enrollment for the next session of its Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. This class is being offered in a blended learning format, allowing us to significantly reduce the classroom time compared to previous Green Belt classes, while maintaining our standard of excellent content. Five full days of classroom teaching will be balanced with extensive online training modules under the supervision of the instructor. Participants in this course will also complete a process improvement project under the coaching of the instructor. Upon successful completion of the project, the participant will become a Certified Green Belt per the Lean Institute at OU.

• Green Belt certification is a widely respected standard valued across many fields
• 3 or 6 hours of graduate credit available through the OU College of Liberal Studies
• 9.6 Continuing Education Units (CEU) available
• 96 PDUs available for PMPs maintaining their certification


What are Lean and Six Sigma?
Lean and Six Sigma are tools to streamline business processes. Consider what specific things your organization does to create goods or services that customers want to purchase. How can these processes be optimized while eliminating unnecessary work? For example, imagine the problem of wasted time in the workplace:

• Are there bottlenecks in your organization where material builds up waiting to be processed?
• Do some departments often sit idle while waiting on work?
• Does partially finished work sit in inventory for extended periods?
• When your employees begin a job, do they have everything they need, or do they have to interrupt their work to get supplies/information?
• Does one department spend time fixing another department's mistakes?
• Do forms travel circuitous paths through your organization, crossing one desk many times?

All of this time adds cost to your customers, without adding any value to your product or service. Lean and Six Sigma work to eliminate these problems, helping you reduce cost and improve quality by streamlining operations. Lean addresses the issue of process flow, while Six Sigma techniques work to measure and control problems through data analysis. These methodologies work together by examining business practices from the perspective of the customer, rather than the business.