Join DuPont Master Black Belt, Stephan Schwarz, as he describes 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