Benchmark’s Business Excellence & Lean Six Sigma Programs
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1 Global Leaders are our clients
We have been working with leaders like Google, Amazon, Boeing, JLL as our clients. We take up assignments in USA, Europe, Africa and Asia. We work with almost all type of industry sectors. References bring us most of our new businesses. Our International HO is in USA.
2 Unique Consulting Roadmaps
Our consulting road-maps ensure that clients not only get the results that they need, they also build internal competence to keep using the methods later. We like to custom create road-maps based on the people, processes and objectives. The initial assessment is usually free.
3 Customized Workshops
All workshops that we offer to the corporate world are customizable. Programs are also recreated by combining some of the competencies. There are 12 competencies on Excellence from which we may pick and choose or modify the deliverable.
Services We Offer
Two problems in the corporate world are never the same. We take pride in Action Learning Workshops that we customize and facilitate. We recommend usage of customized techniques with a custom created roadmap that is suitable for your specific business situation, your specific processes, while keeping your people in mind.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
In 2001, Benchmark initiated the first Lean Six Sigma Green Belt program in India. The only other provider in India at that time was Motorola University from USA. The program has been evolving and is reviewed and revised every year.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
In 2003, Benchmark initiated the first Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program in India. The only other provider in India at that time was Motorola University from USA. The program has been evolving and is reviewed and revised every year.
Business Excellence Master Black Belt
While Six Sigma presents a good coverage of approaches to business problem solving, a Master Black Belt is expected to know and do more. Benchmark offers a unique MBB program which is termed as “Business Excellence Master Black Belt”
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Problem-solving is a structured approach to finding solutions to complex issues. It facilitates business decision making by keeping the customer in the center and providing the right tool kit. This program is a precursor to advanced approaches. It provides a strong foundation to key elements for decision making.
Vendor Managed Operations Efficiency Workshop
In today’s interconnected world, it is imperative that the vendors are treated as partners in creating value for the customer. This workshop aims at providing a robust and metric driven approach to Vendor Management and subsequently improving the operational efficiency of the vendors. This program covers complete coverage of what is needed for high efficiency in VMO.
Quality Tools and Mindset Program
Quality Tools and mindset is the foundational workshop for professionals just starting their career in Quality. It covers the basic quality tools and inculcates a mindset which enables one to think about quality over quantity.
Design Risk Analysis – Design FMEA and FTA
Progressive companies cover more failures in Design Risks as compared to process risks. Potential Risks in a Design Process exist at both the stages, in concept design and in detailed Design. Design Risk Analysis (DRA) leads to competitive advantage for a company as most organizations are incapable of using this concept and approach.
Advanced Product Quality Planning Workshop
Advanced Product Quality Planning is a framework of methods and procedures used to develop new products. It considers the end-to-end value chain of the product development and helps mitigate possibilities of failure during the entire life cycle.
Risk Management
Risk-free outcomes can be expected only if the risks are assessed and mitigated systematically in a process. A sequence of PFD-PFMEA-Control Plan is needed for this objective.
Process Capability Expert
This program provides an overview of most important aspects of delivery capability of an Organization. This program builds competency in Process Capability assessment. It is important to realize how MSA, Capability Assessment and Control Plan relate to each other.
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt/ Quality Certified Professional (QCP)
Quality Certified Professional (QCP) is the foundational workshop for professionals just starting their career in Quality. It covers the basic quality tools and inculcates a mindset which enables one to think about quality over quantity.
Brainstorming and Facilitation
Brainstorming is the most common tool used for ideation and is usually the first step in problem-solving. Brainstorming seems easy, however, if not facilitated properly, does not yield the required results. This program provides a good grasp of several Basic and Advanced Brainstorming Techniques along with practice sessions.
Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide
Understanding the Lean principles helps one identify what is of value to the customer. This identification feeds into removing all the “waste” and keeping only what is meaningful for the customer. You can create increasingly efficient processes with reduced costs and production time. One could say that Lean is a systematic approach to minimizing waste.
Business Excellence Champion
This course integrates Lean Six Sigma and other approaches to create an extremely powerful framework that can create a competitive edge in today’s dynamic business environment.
Statistical Process Control
Measuring the performance of a process is imperative because the process is the only thing you control. Statistical Process Control helps in measuring and visualizing the process performance. The information collected helps drive continuous improvement in your processes, hence, puts you ahead of the competition.
Business Analytics Foundation
Study of data, drawing summaries and insights, creating predictive models, running optimization is an essential requirement in every organization in today’s world. The Business Analytics foundation course provides an insight into how analytics connect with Business Excellence approaches.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Foundation
Low complexity, repetitive tasks can be taken off from the employee tasklist while freeing their time up for more complex tasks and decision making. This can be made possible using Robotics Process Automation (RPA). However, RPA may not be applicable for any and every task and there are risks that must be understood before an organization moves towards Robotic Process Automation.
Poka Yoke (Mistake Proofing)
It is good to do it right the first time. However, it is even better to not let the mistake happen in the first place. This is the motto of Poka Yoke or Mistake Proofing. This program provides a detailed understanding of a recommended mistake proofing sequence.
Business Modelling Expert
Today’s complex business problems have multiple potential solutions, each with its own benefits and challenges. The leadership team will be in a better position to zero down on a particular solution if they can visualize how the multiple solutions will play out. Business Modelling expert simplifies the model building, forecasting and solution generation through optimization.
Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) Practitioner
AHP is built on the understanding that while making a decision, several criteria exist, but all the criteria are not equally weighed. If weights are assigned to different criteria, they must not be arbitrary, else the decisions made will still not be logical. This means that a common problem is that comparison of alternatives is usually not done with a repeatable or a reasonably accurate method. Analytical Hierarchy Method is a scientific method with inbuilt checks and balances that takes care of these inherent fallacies in decision making.
Business Value Analyst (TOC) Practitioner
An alternative to cost accounting is Throughput Accounting. The operating premise of Throughput Accounting is to view the impact of investments and any operational changes in the parlance of business throughput. This program provides a very good understanding of how Throughput Accounting can make financial targets easier to achieve.
Creativity and Innovation (TRIZ) Practitioner
PM Champion
Managing any project requires scoping, planning, executing, controlling, closing multiple tasks in the right order, within a specified timeline. There could several constraints placed on the project team without the luxury of extended execution time or increased budget. This program provides advanced coverage of Project Management with special emphasis on four Knowledge Areas – typically – Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management and Risk Management.