Meliora will be hosting Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training in 2019! Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is a four-week intensive course for internal leaders with a proven history of success and excellent interpersonal skills who will lead project teams within their organizations. Building off of the DMAIC process instilled in Green Belt, Black Belt is designed to train key leaders and change agents on mastery of various tools of focus inherent in DMAIC. This course compleme

Most discussions about performance focus on averages. While averages give us clues to targets and expectations, understanding variation is extremely important to driving lasting change. There are two types of variation, common cause and special cause. Common cause variation is innate in all systems, it is sometimes referred to as “noise.” For example, it takes me 28 – 35 minutes to drive to work. Each day is different from the last due to a number of factors associated w

Meliora hosted 27 trainees from 9 companies for Six Sigma Green Belt training April 24-28, 2018. Throughout the week, 5 Master Black Belt instructors presented key Six Sigma concepts and tools through a variety of presentations and hands-on exercises. The class walked through the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) process as a systematic approach to driving sustainable change. Students applied the DMAIC tools to a hands-on project using a small scale cat