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Upcoming Event

2012 High Performance Virtual Summit

High Performance Virtual Summit

This year's summit on “Creating Real Change” will give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in healthcare and industries who will share their experiences and perspective on improvement and transformation with an emphasis on what really works.

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New White Paper

Enterprise Risk Management: Proof or Promise?

There is overwhelming consensus among financial services executives that the current risk environment has become significantly more complex, dynamic, and difficult to navigate. Some new mandates are expensive and cut into margins and profitability, so there is a real motivation to not only comply but to more effectively manage the response and cost.

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New Article

Executive Insight: Five New Year’s Resolutions for Every Hospital in 2012

Creating ecosystems/cultures of improvement, adopting a more holistic view, improving the patient experience, embracing IT, and seek innovation.

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Training

Team-Based Training. Team-Wide Success.

In order to sustain improvement throughout your organization, it requires commitment from the people within your organization – and those people need the right knowledge and tools to be successful.  That’s why all Guidon’s classroom training programs utilize a team-based, interactive format that ensures effective, retained learning.

Delivered onsite at your facility by instructors with years of relevant, real-world experience applying the tools and methodologies, our programs offer a cost-effective way to develop internal capabilities and engage your entire team.

Every Guidon training program is also backed by our unconditional guarantee – because we stand behind everything we do.  Contact us to register your team for any of the following lean six sigma training programs, or to discuss a custom training program.

Industry-Specific Training

  • Lean Sigma Fundamentals for Healthcare
    A two-day introductory workshop on Lean Sigma tools and techniques for use in the healthcare industry, including hospital systems, laboratories, insurance carriers and other organizations.
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  • Lean Sigma Fundamentals for Service
    Lean Sigma Fundamentals for Service will give you a concise overview of how and why Lean Sigma tools are so effective in service businesses. This two-day workshop is an ideal starting point for service businesses and other organizations looking to streamline their processes. It is designed so that the tools and techniques can be easily applied across a variety of disciplines. You will leave the workshop with a clear roadmap for implementing your own business process improvement strategy.
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  • Lean Sigma Fundamentals for Financial Services
    Lean Sigma Fundamentals for Financial Services is a two-day introductory workshop for executives and operational leaders from banks, credit unions, outsourced processors or casualty, property, and life insurance companies. It is designed to help leaders understand how to leverage the power of Lean Sigma within their own organizations to deliver unprecedented performance.
  • Lean Sigma Fundamentals for IT
    A two-day introductory workshop for IT organizations on the basic concepts of Lean Sigma and how to leverage them. Learn to eliminate wasted time, choose effective IT performance measurements and how to engage your team in process improvement.
    Click here to download brochure.

Training For Any Industry

  • Lean Sigma Resource Management
    This two-day workshop focuses on resource management fundamentals and provides insights on how to leverage Lean Sigma practices for service organizations.
  • Lean Sigma Green Belt Training
    A 9-week program (3 weeks of training + 6 weeks of mentored project work) that teaches the powerful tools of Lean Sigma to help businesses rapidly implement high-impact business improvement. Learn to apply Lean Sigma, the Kaizen methodology and advanced Six Sigma statistical problem-solving skills.
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  • Lean Sigma Black Belt Training
    A 14-week program (4 weeks of training + 10 weeks of mentored project work) that includes a simulation to experience the Kaizen methodology and Value Stream Analysis. Learn the Lean Sigma tools and techniques to accurately assess the Voice of the Customer and the rationale and process for project selection.
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  • Lean Sigma Kaizen Breakthrough Event
    Experience a five-day improvement workshop and the dramatic bottom-line improvement and efficiency you can quickly achieve and sustain, as your Kaizen team implements Lean tools in an actual business operation.