Achieving Efficiency and Productivity Through Quality and Lean Practices
Do you aim to enhance your organization's quality, efficiency, and competitiveness? Our Quality Management and Lean programs offer practical tools for quality assurance, process improvement, and continuous improvement. You will learn how to identify improvement areas, solve problems, and systematically lead change.
Our programs help you understand the big picture and develop quality and lean thinking analytically: this means not only contextualization, but also gaining new knowledge as well as identifying, developing, experimenting with, and applying feasible ideas.
What kind of training or development are you looking for?
What can be achieved through the new learnings?
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Improved productivity and profitability: Quality management systems, Lean principles, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies enhance organizational efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure optimal resource utilization, directly impacting profitability.
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Competitiveness and customer satisfaction: Systematic quality improvement ensures that customers receive consistent products and services that meet their needs, thus increasing customer loyalty and market position.
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Data-Driven decision making: Lean Six Sigma brings statistical analysis and fact-based decision-making to the organization, minimizing guesswork and delivering better results.
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Continuous improvement culture and personnel competence: Lean thinking cultivates a culture of problem-solving and improvement, ensuring staff skills remain current and driving organizational evolution.
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Strategic advantage: Effective quality management aligns organizational strategies with operational practices, embedding quality into the organizational DNA for long-term success.
Quality management involves the systematic development and continuous improvement of operations, products, services, and processes. It is based on understanding customer needs, analyzing the current situation, and setting objectives. Quality ensures that strategic directions are effectively implemented.
Successful organizations invest in systematic quality development, including change management, operational excellence, and strategic development. Quality thinking is anchored in the culture of the organization, which requires both setting the right metrics and engaging staff in continuous improvement.
Lean is a management and development philosophy that focuses on adding value and eliminating waste. At the heart of Lean thinking are customer focus, process streamlining, and continuous improvement. Organizations adopting Lean practices experience continuous evolution, enhancing staff skills and problem-solving capabilities.
Lean originated in the automotive industry, but its principles apply to all types of organizations. Standardized work and systematic development optimize processes, reduce variation, and eliminate unnecessary tasks, allowing the organization to focus on delivering maximum customer value and efficient resource utilization.
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) combines Lean principles and Six Sigma methodologies with an emphasis on statistical analysis and accurate measurement of processes. LSS aims to minimize variation, reduce errors, and optimize resource allocation.
LSS is based on systematic improvement and problem-solving, focusing on current state analysis, root cause identification, and data-driven development. It provides clear tools and methodologies for enhancing organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
See also
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Our operations and supply chain management training programs will help you anticipate change and develop your operations to achieve sustainable competitiveness.
Online Courses
Our online courses offer you the opportunity to study business and organizational management themes as well as develop essential skills and knowledge for experts at every stage of their career.
Meet Our Faculty
Toni Puhakka
Toni Puhakka is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Senior Adviser at Nordic Process Improvement Oy. His speciality areas are Design for Six Sigma and LSS coaching to achieve considerable savings and benefits.
Puhakka has close to 20 years of experience in LSS from the global business environment. Since 2016, Puhakka has worked as a trainer and consultant at Nordic Process Improvement in Lean Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma training and coaching programs, as well as as a project manager and mentor for project leaders in various business areas. Prior to his current role, he spent more than 14 years in R&D and manufacturing process development across a wide range of business areas.
Puhakka holds a Master of Science degree in technology. He received his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt qualification in 2015 and a Design For Six Sigma education in 2010.
Jari Ylitalo
Jari Ylitalo, PhD, is a University Lecturer in Leadership at Aalto University School of Science and Aalto Ventures Program.
He teaches, in particular, master's students on leadership, teamwork, and self-management.
Ylitalo's pedagogical approach emphasises a dialogical and resource-oriented approach. He also works as a supervisor, coach, and workplace facilitator. He has a long and diverse experience in coaching and developing leaders, management teams, and organisations in both corporate and public organisations.
Ylitalo's research has focused on leadership and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of guidance, resource-centred and dialogue-based development approaches. He has also studied the social dynamics and development of cooperation and partnerships between companies and organisations, as well as network management and the development of a network approach.
