Ep. 36 - Lean and Six Sigma: Ron Baker

<p>There was a lot of buzz around Lean and Six Sigma back in the 80s and 90s, but not today anymore.</p> <p>However, the practice is not dead and it is still relevant and used in many industries today. And there are good reasons to take a step back and have another look at why it was so successful and what of the practice still creates value and should be included in your&nbsp;process improvement and process excellence&nbsp;initiatives.</p> <p>Today's guest on the <a href="https://www.whatsyourbaseline.com/podcast">What's Your Baseline Podcast</a> is Ron Baker. He is an American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certified Black Belt and a SixSigma.us Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 26 years of proven success and increasing levels of responsibility in both domestic and international environments.</p> <p>He has an expert level of business process improvement knowledge in transactional (Department of Defense, Financial &amp; Retail) and manufacturing (Oil &amp; Gas/Pharmaceutical/Health Care/Medical Device &amp; Semiconductor) environments.<br> In addition to this he has recent program management office implementation experience, deploying continuous improvement techniques (Lean Six Sigma), and strategy development.</p> <p>We are talking about these topics:</p> <ul> <li>Ron's background and how a 400m runner becomes a process improvement consultant</li> <li>What is Lean and Six Sigma?</li> <li>What are "belts" and what do they indicate?</li> <li>What is a typical approach of a Lean/6 Sigma project and how do you get buy in?</li> <li>Do you need special tools for a Lean/6 Sigma project?</li> </ul> <p>You can find Ron on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-baker/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-baker/</a> or send an email to <a href="mailto:onwbaker@gmail.com">ronwbaker@gmail.com</a>.</p> <p>The full show notes, including graphics, further links, and credits are available at <a href="//whatsyourbaseline.com/episode36" target="_blank">whatsyourbaseline.com/episode36</a>.</p>