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?

Customized Competence Development Solutions

With over 50 years of experience, Aalto EE develops world-class competence development solutions that utilize Aalto University’s multidisciplinary faculty and approach.

We co-create with organizations' impactful and inspirational training solutions and help our customers to address current and future business challenges.

 

Aalto EE's customized solutions are an impressive way to renew organizations and competencies, ensure strategy implementation, and build a new competitive advantage. Together with our corporate clients, we design and implement customized training where all aspects are always organized according to the customer's needs.

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What can be achieved through the new learnings?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Data-Driven decision making: Lean Six Sigma brings statistical analysis and fact-based decision-making to the organization, minimizing guesswork and delivering better results.

  • 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.

  • Strategic advantage: Effective quality management aligns organizational strategies with operational practices, embedding quality into the organizational DNA for long-term success.

Meet Our Faculty

Mika Koivisto

Mika Koivisto is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CEO and Partner at Nordic Business Improvement Oy. He has acted full time with Lean Six Sigma from 1999 and onwards.

Koivisto has led projects, supported thousands of improvement initiatives, provided training, and been responsible for global organizations' Lean and Six Sigma deployment.

Since establishing his own company in 2009, Koivisto has been providing training in his areas of core expertise: statistical methods, Design for Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma. He has profound knowledge of development methods and can apply them to a diverse range of practical processes and situations. Koivisto is highly esteemed for his expertise and productive, practical approach.

Mika Koivisto completed his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training in 1999 and became a certified Master Black Belt on Nokia's first MBB course in 2000.

Max Finne

Max Finne is an Assistant Professor of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business.

Max Finne is an operations, projects, and supply chain management expert. He has specialized in servitization, Industry 4.0, service network management, professional service operations, inter-organizational collaboration, learning analytics, and flipped learning pedagogies. Finne has taught in several Warwick Business School’s prestigious Executive, Full-time, and Distance Learning MBA Programs before joining Aalto University. Even the most demanding student cohorts highly appreciate Finne’s teaching and have awarded him the highest student feedback of the whole teaching team on many occasions.

He has carried out close research collaboration with companies such as ABB, Costain, Finnair, Fujitsu, KONE, NCC, and Skanska. He delivers innovative and engaging teaching with a high impact on learning, showcased through his winning the distinguished Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

Max Finne has been awarded Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice with distinction (1st-class honors) from the University of Warwick. It gave him full pedagogical qualification to teach in the UK Higher Education and recognition as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Contact Us

Tupuna Tapanainen

Program Director +358 10 837 3821 tupuna.tapanainen@aaltoee.fi

Matias Kiuru

Relationship Specialist +358 10 837 3802 matias.kiuru@aaltoee.fi

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