Lean 6 Sigma Manager

New: Lean Six Sigma Online Training For Busy Managers

“How To Make Better Decisions and Build a Strong, Focused Team with This Practical Method”

Learn only the 20% of the problem-solving tools delivering 80% of the results

Message from Peter Herku, author of Profitable Empowerment:

Dear Manager,

If you want to have a quick and easy start and want to learn…

• How to apply Lean methodology to increase capacity up to 60%
• How to apply Six Sigma methodology to reduce mistakes up to 100%
• How to build a strong team that focuses on solving difficult business issues
• Which tools to use from the 100+ Lean Six Sigma arsenal for problem-solving

and learn all of this AT YOUR EASE, WITHOUT ANY EXPENSIVE CONSULTANT around (like the one on the picture ) then let me warmly welcome you!

I’m Peter Herku and I’m specialized in improving individual and organisational performance using Lean Six Sigma methodology. I studied Chemical Engineering and was fascinated by subjects on process improvement, optimization and statistical process control. Starting at Exxon Mobil in Finance, I was curious about how to predict a company’s financial performance and what are the most important factors determining future profit and cash-flow. Later, completing my MBA at Webster University, Operations Management and Management Accounting were my favourites. Again, due to the subjects on performance improvement and data-based decision making.

With all these years of study, technical and business education, many years of experience in Finance, I was dissatisfied with my own performance, often felt miserable and helpless in my job.

“The unhappy manager…” Do you recognize it?

Most of us, managers, have so little tangible methods available to improve the financial performance of our company. Even though we are very busy with…

- Solving daily operational problems

- Giving instructions and writing procedures

- Going to meetings and presenting our idea’s

- Cutting costs

- Hiring and dismissing employees

We only achieve some temporary results but not long lasting ones.

This has all changed due to Lean and Six Sigma problem-solving methodology

I happily left Finance and started working as Lean Six Sigma Improvement Project Manager in Europe both in production and service environment.

I have quickly realized: It is now possible to improve the financial position of the company dramatically by increasing quality and reducing process times.

The reason for this is in the power of Lean Six Sigma:

1. The structured and transparent way of problem solving

2. The data-driven decision making

3. The cross-functional, focused team-work

“This is what I was missing through all those years!”

Here are some of the result You can easily duplicate when you start applying the methodology together with your team

Result #1: With my very first project, I was able to reduce defects by 84,6% and improve quality at a production department of a company in just about 6 month time. This problem has been there for about 20 years, basically from the start.

Result #2: During my second Lean Six Sigma project, in Germany, the company was struggling with long production time. Together with the team we identified the bottle neck department.

Using the same basic problem solving steps (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) together with the appropriate tools within each step, we were able to reduce the lead-time of the weaving department by 37%.

Result #3: In Austria, customers were complaining about the variation of a certain dimension of the product. To avoid further claims, I have analyzed the process together with the product management team. We have identified the 3 most important factors determining the given dimension. We changed the process accordingly. As a result we were able to reduce the variation by 83% and the customers were very happy, as you can imagine.

These are the steps You can follow to achieve similar results

Step 1: Identify your most important challenge. Remember: you have customers to satisfy. It can be an end-user or the next department or your colleague. Your customers’ satisfaction depends on 3 important elements:

I. Quality of your product, service or information

II. Delivery: the time it takes to receive your product, service or information

III. Costs you customer has to pay for your output in terms of money and effort

Step 2: Define a project that will solve your important challenge. Scope it small to be able to finish it in max. 6 month. This project will have the objective to improve one of the above mentioned area’s:

I. Improve the quality of your product, service, information. Think about reduction of mistakes, reduction of customer complaints or irritations. These are your Six Sigma projects.

II. Reducing the time it takes to deliver your product, service or information. Think about projects reducing waiting time, reducing process steps, eliminating circulation of documents/materials/information, simplification of processes. These are your Lean projects.

III. Both of the above-mentioned projects will help you to reduce costs.

Step 3: Set up the project team that will get the time and resources to apply Lean Six Sigma tools to complete the project in 3 to 6 month time. This team should consist of 5 – 7 members with one leader. The members should know much about the problem, should be confronted with it daily and they should come from different departments. This will create higher organizational involvement and that people will focus on solving the issue instead of on their own individual preferences and agenda’s.

Step 4: The team follows the DMAIC roadmap of Lean Six Sigma to find the optimum solution. This acronym stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control. In each phase there are some very effective tool to use to complete the given phase. My favourite ones are:

- Project Charter: to clearly define the problem, the objective and the benefits

- Runchart or Individual Chart to visualize the current performance and understand variation

- Cause & Effect diagram for effective brainstorming with the team about the most important causes of the problem

- Pareto chart to display the 20% of the causes delivering 80% of the problems

- Control Plan to summarize our findings and to sustain our improved performance

Repeat these steps and continually improve the business, make better, fact-based decisions, build your team stronger and more focused…so that you can go home early to live more and work less

But how could you be sure that I am a real person, full of passion about Lean Six Sigma, and not making this up?

Here is the PROOF that my method is able to deliver you tangible results:

1. Netherlands: Increased welding capacity by 40% at a small maintenance company without any investments.

Now this company contracted me to teach and coach Lean and Six Sigma for 59% of the employees. They are running projects

• to reduce order processing time
• to standardize welding jobs
• to increase on-time-delivery performance
• to optimize inventory level
• to improve profitability of field service activities

Please feel free to verify this and call Mr. R. Habets, Managing Director, at this number:

+31 578 579 700

2. Sweden: 20% of the employees including the management team have been trained in the same method is this course is about.

After 6 month the company (about 300 employees) achieved the highest profit ever. Nowadays, they run several improvement projects very efficiently. The Managing Director became “Lean Six Sigma Ambassador”.

Please feel free to verify this and call Mr. Ch. Blomqvist, Managing Director, at this number:

+46 151 47 100

3. Germany/US/Austria: Based on the success in Sweden, the same business improvement program has started in US, Germany and Austria.

Again, please verify yourself this success and call Mr. G. Klap, Global Process Development Manager, at this number:

+31 535 739 300

*Important* comment here: I’m thankful to these excellent but very busy leaders to be available in case you have questions about my program but I trust you will only call them in case you have an important query. Thank you.

Some more evidence that I’m not only doing Lean Six Sigma projects but also can teach You how you can do it

I have not only run Lean Six Sigma projects myself as Project Manager but I also have been teaching and Coaching others on the same subject.

I have been teaching in an international environment, in countries like Netherlands, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, USA, India, Hungary, etc.

Coaching and teaching is an excellent way to leverage my experience and deliver greater results than if I would run my own project.

Here is an extract of the list of projects that I have been coaching:

- Improve delivery reliability

- Reduce stock of raw material

- Reduce obsolete material

- Cost reduction of general supplies

- Set-up time reduction

- Improve planning efficiency

- Reduce off-spec products

- Reduce re-starts

- Reduce waste at packing

- Improve utilization of production department

- Optimizing yield

- Elimination of re-work activities

- Reducing energy consumption

- Improve capacity of xyz machine

- Speed-up calculation and quotation processes

- Optimize inventory and service level

- Reduce deviation from budget

- Increase predictability of completion of a service/maintenance job

- Increase sales of a certain product (B2B)

- Increase profitability of a business unit

Most probably you have already spotted some projects that could be run at your place as well…and it does not matter whether you are working in a production or service environment. The basics are the same.

…but there are so many management methods…why would Lean Six Sigma be the most effective?

The world’s largest and most profitable companies – including the likes of GE, Toyota, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola – have used Six Sigma and Lean to achieve breathtaking improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work environments.

Over the past decade, over $100 billion in bottom–line performance has been achieved through corporate Six Sigma programs.  Yet, despite its astounding effectiveness, few outside of the community of Lean Six Sigma practitioners know what this method is all about.

Those are big companies and you cannot apply exactly the same program to small and medium size organizations

That’s the reason I’m specialized in Lean Six Sigma programs for smaller companies. Why is my program different? Here are my Unique Selling Points:

• I’ve selected only the few, most effective yet easy-to-understand techniques from the 100+ Lean Six Sigma arsenal. These are the essential ones that even your employees with low education level can use.

• My program is very much focusing on the results instead on the use of different tools. I’m very pragmatic and I guess you don’t have much time either to play around with many different tools. You want results and the quicker the better.

• While many big companies are focusing on Lean (reducing non-value-added activities) and others on Six Sigma (defect reduction) in my programs you will always get both because Lean has great impact on Six Sigma and vice versa.

• While many companies are running only Lean or Six Sigma projects, I won’t advise you to do the same. I’ve seen that the biggest, long-lasting, organization-transforming impact can only be achieved if you tie Lean Six Sigma to your strategic objectives and it becomes your company “DNA”.

Based on these fundamentals and my success in coaching and project management I have created an online Lean Six Sigma training for Managers and (future) Leaders like You.

So can YOU afford not to understand Lean Six Sigma?

You, as a leader, be the first in your organization and learn the most essential elements of this great management innovation of the past quarter century and an extremely powerful way to boost a company’s competitiveness. (Again, cited from the above mentioned book.)

So don’t waste your time with theoretical, ineffective methods but learn the step-by-step approach that will increase your problem-solving capacity like no other business tool.

Using Lean Six Sigma you will be able to:

• Improve the quality of your output – by reducing defects by 60% to 100%
• Satisfy the receiver of your output – the customer
• Achieve this more often – so less variation, cost savings about 5% of yearly sales
• Do it efficiently – removing the wastes/un-necessary activities out of the process, shortening lead time by 20% to 60%

And this is exactly what you are going to learn in the online training course.

I have selected for you the important tools; provide you with explanations, instruction videos, case studies, templates and tools in order to learn the method quickly, apply it effectively with high return on investment.

What will you learn in this online training course?

• What is the best way to start with a profit increase program in order to be successful for short-term and also for long-term.
• How to ensure a good start for such program without running to the wrong direction.
• How to make this program your number one priority and tie it to your vision and mission.

• Instruction on how to apply and what is the strategic role of Lean Six Sigma.
• Why should you go “broad” before you go “deep” with your activities
• How to identify and select your improvement projects. This will get your Finance Managers excited… guaranteed.
• How to set up the “cockpit” to monitor your performance
• What the organizational aspects are of this improvement program. Learn from the mistakes of others.
• Which is the most critical element that can boost your results within less than 93 days? Managers: pay attention!
• What is the correct process for solving Lean Six Sigma or Any problem
• What do you have to fix in the Define Phase and what tools you need for that. The real power of defining the problem. Only this step could change a company completely.
• How to become customer oriented even when you never see the end-user?
• What is the single, most important statistical tool that everybody should use – even if you failed your maths exam?
• What is Measurement System Analysis and why to do this “nasty” task? Case studies will help you along the way, don’t worry. If only you get the importance of it, you can make my day.
• In the Analyze phase, how to avoid going home with a huge list of possible causes, feeling miserable. I’ve been there and done that. This will be your second most important tool. No statistical wizards required – only a bit social intelligence.
• My favourite one: the discovery of an Italian economist and its application to get you and the whole organization focused. Become effective!
• Which tools you can use to find your optimal solutions.
• Essence of the Control Phase and find out how to sustain your improvements. This will set you apart from the others making improvements but without Lean Six Sigma.

Here’s exactly what you will get if you enrol:

• 2 hours video material with detailed explanation of every critical step in the improvement program including Preparation Phase and each of the DMAIC Phases (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control)
• During the video of the Measure Phase, you will also receive a detailed explanation on Run Charts – spread this knowledge, there is too little use of this great tool
• During the video of the Control Phase you will see exactly the template I use to document the project improvements. It is also filled in with an example so you can understand it better.
• 7 complete mind maps laying-out the blue print of every phase so you can refer to it without having to pause the video to study
• Special instruction video on effective use of Ishikawa-diagram for brainstorming with results. If you only learn this one you start saving time and money.
• Detailed case study on how to use Lean Six Sigma to reduce defects from 21% to 4%
• Detailed case study on the unique application of Lean Six Sigma to increase sales with 200+ KEUR in six month
• Profit Increase Program Toolkit in MS Excel to save you even more costs – no need to buy expensive statistical software. This tool contains the following:
  • Worksheet on your Vision, Mission and Strategy
  • Sample Cockpit with suggestions from an ex-Finance Manager (me) on how to build your own performance monitoring system
  • Supporting overview to come from your Challenges –> Baseline –> Objective to your Projects that you will start working on applying the Lean Six Sigma tools
  • Template Project Charter to capture all the required info before you start with your project – recall the Define Phase video
  • My favourite Run Chart where you can enter Spec Limits and compare different stages (like “before” and “after” improvements)
  • My next favourite Pareto chart to clearly display your priorities
• Power Point Templates for Project Charter and Ishikawa-diagram (fish bone)
• Certification: you will be allowed to complete an online test about everything you have learned in this course. Upon achieving 80% correctly on the test, I will send you your Lean Six Sigma Certification. This corresponds with Champion- and Yellow Belt Advanced Level.

Furthermore, you get these for FREE if you join today

Bonus #1: Case study interview on how to use Lean Six Sigma in Industrial Sales area. Applying this methodology in Sales is absolutely not usual but this interview will get you understand how the DMAIC stages are able to get you more sales and satisfied customers. Value: 47 Euro.

Bonus #2: I put together a Special Report on the 7+ Most Critical Factors to Succeed with Lean Six Sigma. Give a copy to your boss; he/she will need it. Value: 15 Euro. Neglect this report and it will cost you 1000 times more.

Bonus #3: 3 Coaching Sessions with me personally. This is an unexceptional offer and I’m not sure how long I can afford to give this for free. (Underestimated)Value: 450 Euro.

I would like to help you with your progress and offer you this bonus of coaching in 3 sessions. This is how we’re going to do it efficiently:

Step 1: You send me your questions, using an online form that you can find on the website.

Step 2: I collect all the questions and give my best answers.

We will repeat this 3 times.

So the total value of the bonuses: 512 Euro. Only the 3rd bonus is worth the money because there are no other Lean Six Sigma programs that you can get your questions answered without further commercial obligations.

If you don’t have a systematic business improvement strategy in place or you consider starting with Lean Six Sigma, this training can save you lot of time and money.

How Much Is All This Worth?

This online training material is an extract of my private program which is 3000 Euro per person. Currently I charge 150 Euro for a one hour consultation session. The 2 hours of video material and the 3 x 1 hour coaching session already gives a value of 750 Euro, not mentioning the case studies, templates, interviews and the certification test.

The beauty of an online training is that it gives me the ability to multiply myself. Instead of travelling and dealing with 4 to 8 coaching clients at a time, now I am able to help hundreds of managers and ambitious young professionals.

All the videos are accessible after ordering, you can play them whenever you want and repeat them over and over again. You can start learning and applying the basics of Lean Six Sigma problem solving just within minutes after your purchase. No appointments with consultants, no time wasted, you are in control.

The price for all this is only 97 Euro.

Besides, you have NOTHING to lose and EVERYTHING to gain:

Now it’s YOUR turn. Go ahead and join this training course.

Testimonials about Lean Six Sigma

If you serious about increasing your own market value by learning this highly effective problem solving method and want to spread the “continuous improvement mentality” around you, join the “family”

Here is the executive summary of the my offer for you today

• Direct access to the password protected membership website with 2 hours of video presentation about each and every crucial step of Lean Six Sigma program
• Detailed explanation of the most effective methods in each phase of DMAIC problem-solving roadmap that ensures you and your people will solve difficult business challenges for the last time
• Special training video on effective brainstorming and how to arrive to the right priority of possible solutions
• Detailed case studies on how to solve different business problems with Lean and Six Sigma
• Templates, worksheets that you can use for your own
• 2 FREE bonus: interview on how this method increased sales and a special report to avoid mistakes
• Certification test (optional)
• 3 Online coaching sessions
• One-time payment of 97 Euro for life-time access

I am making this offer available to list of about 3.000 subscribers from all around the world. In order to deliver excellent quality work and valuable coaching sessions I will need to limit the numbers of the training participants.

I do not know yet how many participants I can handle with my team, maybe 30 or 50 at a time. We will see.

Anyway, I would hate to disappoint you by closing the door of this training for a couple of months.

So it’s up to you to decide if it is worthy to your career to learn today’s most effective problem-solving method.

Applying these techniques will increase your personal effectiveness, your organizational efficiency so that you can focus more on your strategic goals instead of daily fire-fighting. Choice is yours.

Warm regards,

M.Sc. Peter Herku MBA

Black Belt Lean Six Sigma

PS: Remember, you have a full 90 day money back guarantee. Keep all the bonuses and downloads even if you ask for a return. The risk is all on us.