Don Linsenmann Discusses Critical Success Factors for Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence Deployments

Don Linsenmann, VP—Business Process Excellence and Corporate Champion—DuPont Six Sigma, shares insights at the 11th Annual IQPC Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit and Awards.

Linsenmann discusses:

• How Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence leaders can keep their programs relevant to the CEO and the C-suite
• Strategies for deploying Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence programs throughout the turbulent business environment
• The critical success factors for deploying Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence

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DuPont Success Story

Led by Corporate Champion and co-author of The Six Sigma Field Book, Don Linsenmann, DuPont is one of the most iconic and successful operational excellence deployments in the world. DuPont is also the largest global deployment of Six Sigma in the world. The DuPont deployment encompasses all five of DuPont's major business platforms containing 23 SBUs and over 50,000 employees worldwide. The Instantis EnterpriseTrack system manages over 30,000 active and archived projects and the activities of over 23,000 Black/Green Belts, 300 MBBs and 140 Champions. The scale of the Instantis deployment in terms of project and user counts is larger than the aggregate installed base of some competitive products.

Read the complete DuPont case study.

DuPont Lessons Learned

Please check out the following recorded Webinars led by DuPont Master Black Belt Stephan Schwarz. These Webinars were among the most popular (in terms of live attendance and archive downloads) in ISSSP history.

• Crossing the Chasm to Cultural Transformation at DuPont: Lessons Learned from the World's Largest Six Sigma Deployment [View Abstract]

  Join DuPont MBB, Stephan Schwarz, as he leads a Focused Session describing best practices and lessons learned from one of the most iconic and successful operational excellence deployments in the world. The presentation will draw from the unique perspective of a massive global deployment across all five of DuPont's major business platforms containing > 23,000 Black/Green Belts, > 300 MBBs & 140 Champions. Specifically, Stephan will share best practices and lessons learned in the following areas:

  Executive Leadership: 5 Critical X's (Don Linsenmann)

  • Leadership commitment
  • Resource commitment
  • Driving and sustaining employee adoption of company processes and systems
  • Data and technical rigor
  • Enabling with IT, but driving with people
  • Tracking the results of 9,000 active projects, 17,000 closed & completed projects to the bottom line
  • Financial validation rigor & reporting
  • Celebrating your successes

  Strategic Focus & Change Management During Transitions

  • How Six Sigma becomes the way you work?
  • From improvement to design for growth
  • Driving Six Sigma towards the customer win-win situation
  • Integrating Lean & Six Sigma
  • Training
  • Software evolution
• Crossing the Chasm to Cultural Transformation at DuPont (Part 2) -- A Q&A Session with the World’s Largest Six Sigma Practitioner [View Abstract]
  Join DuPont MBB, Stephan Schwarz, as he reviews best practices and lessons learned from one of the most iconic and successful operational excellence deployments in the world. The majority of the session will be dedicated to an interactive Q&A in which Stephan will draw from the unique perspective of DuPont’s massive global deployment across all five of the company’s major business platforms involving over 23,000 Black/Green Belts, over 300 MBBs and 140 Champions. This is your chance to quiz an expert with your burning questions in topic areas such as:
  
  Executive Leadership: Don Linsenmann’s 5 Critical X’s

  • Leadership and resource commitment
  • Driving and sustaining employee adoption of company processes and systems
  • The role of data and technical rigor
  • Tracking the results to the bottom line
  • Financial validation rigor & reporting

  Strategic Focus & Change Management During Transitions

  • How Six Sigma becomes the way you work?
  • Evolving from improvement to design for growth
  • Driving Six Sigma towards the customer win-win situation
  • Integrating Lean & Six Sigma
  • Training
  • Software evolution

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