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What you will learn - How to Manage Knowledge Across Your Organization
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Get BIG Savings with our Knowledge Management Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
- Knowledge Management
- Fostering Innovation
- Growth Hacking
- Business Acumen
- Six Sigma and Lean Process
1. Knowledge Management: How to Manage Knowledge Across Your Organization
The Encarta Dictionary defines knowledge management as the organization of intellectual resources and information systems within a business environment. Sounds pretty simple, right? Take a moment, though, and think about all the information that each person has in their brain. That's a lot of knowledge!
The Knowledge Management course will give you the tools that you will need to begin implementing knowledge management in your organization, no matter what the size of the company or the budget. Wherever there are humans working together for one goal, there is knowledge to be harvested, stored, and dispensed as needed.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the basic concept of knowledge management
- Identify the dos and don'ts of knowledge management
- Identify the knowledge management life cycle
- Identify the new knowledge management paradigm
- Identify the knowledge management models
- Understand how to build a knowledge management rational for your company
- Understand how to customize knowledge management definitions
- Identify the steps to implementing knowledge management in your organization
- Identify tips for success
- Understand the advance topics in knowledge management
2. Fostering Innovation: Learn to create an innovative workspace
This course covers the essential elements of fostering innovation in the workplace. You will understand ways they can create an innovative workspace, key traits associated with innovative leaders in the workplace, as well as specific processes and workflows that can be implemented to help their entire team become innovative thinkers. Having the tools at a teams’ fingertips, will entice them to come up with more innovative ideas, and increase the chances of success.
What will you learn with our Fostering Innovation Online Course?
- Ways to can create an innovative workspace
- Key traits associated with innovative leaders
- Implement specific processes and workflows
3. Growth Hacking: Learn to create your own growth hacking plan
The term “growth hacker” was created by Sean Ellis in 2010. He used the phrase in a blog post seeking people to take over the rapid-growth systems he was creating for start-up companies. The first step in successful growth hacking is accepting that it is not marketing. It has a mindset, processes, skills, and systems of its own.
What will you learn with our Growth Hacking Online Certificate Course?
- Identify the growth hacking mindset
- Recognize the differences between growth hacking and marketing
- Identify the customer need your business can fill
- Create and implement product placement and services to fit the need
- Learn and practice techniques
- Review and practice marketing strategies
- Identify the essentials of conversion and optimization
- Create your own plan
4. Business Acumen: Increase your Financial Literacy & Improve Business Sense
Improve your judgment and decisiveness skills. Business Acumen is all about seeing the big picture and recognizing that all decisions no matter how small can have an effect on the bottom line. Increase your financial literacy and improve business sense.
Business Acumen will give you an advantage everyone wishes they had. The Business Acumen Online Short Course will help you recognize learning events, manage risk better, and increase your critical thinking. Business Acumen has the ability to influence your whole organization, and provide that additional edge that will lead to success.
By the end of this Business Acumen Online Short Course, you will be able to:
- Know how to see the big picture
- Develop a risk management strategy
- Know how to practice financial literacy
- Develop critical thinking
- Practice management acumen
- Find key financial levers
5. Six Sigma and Lean Process: Eliminate Defects and Waste in Your Business Processes
Six Sigma is a data-driven approach for eliminating defects and waste in any business process. You can compare Six Sigma with turning your water faucet and experiencing the flow of clean, clear water. Reliable systems are in place to purify, treat, and pressure the water through the faucet. That is what Six Sigma does to business: it treats the processes in business so that they deliver their intended result.
Our Lean Process And Six Sigma course will provide an introduction to this way of thinking that has changed so many corporations in the world. This course will give you an overview of the Six Sigma methodology, and some of the tools required to deploy Six Sigma in own organizations.
By the end of this Six Sigma and Lean Process Online Short Course, you will be able to:
- Develop a 360 degree view of Six Sigma and how it can be implemented in any organization
- Identify the fundamentals of lean manufacturing, lean enterprise and lean principles
- Describe the key dimensions of quality - product features and freedom from deficiencies
- Develop attributes and value according to the Kano Model
- Understand how products and services that have the right features and are free from deficiencies can promote customer satisfaction and attract and retain new customers
- Describe what is required to regulate a process
- Give examples of how poor quality affects operating expenses in the areas of appraisal, inspection costs, internal failure costs and external failure costs
- Using basic techniques such as DMAIC and how to identify Six Sigma Projects
- Use specific criteria to evaluate a project
- Discover root causes of a problem
- Design and install new controls to hold the gains and to prevent the problem from returning
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
For comprehensive information on units of study click the units of study tab above.
This is an incredible opportunity to invest in yourself and your future, sharpen your training skills and learn what it takes to create your own success with Courses For Success Today!
Course Fast Facts:
- All courses are easy to follow and understand
- Only 6 to 8 hours of study is required per course
- Unlimited lifetime access to course materials
- Study as many courses as you want
- Delivered 100% on-line and accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone
- You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time
- Certificates
Course Delivery
Courses are accessed online via our learning management system by any device including PC, MAC, tablet or Smart Phone.
Recognition & Accreditation
The courses offered by Courses For Success are unique as they are taught in a step by step process enabling students to complete them quickly and easily, so that you can obtain your qualification sooner. All students who complete the course receive a certificate of completion. Courses For Success is committed to high completion rates and therefore 100% student satisfaction.
Units of Study
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
The Knowledge Management 5 Course Bundle includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course:
Course 1 - Certificate In Knowledge Management Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Understanding Knowledge Management
- What is knowledge?
- What is knowledge management?
- A brief history
- Applications in the workplace
Module Three - Dos and Dont's
- Data, information and knowledge
- The tactic mode
- The explicit mode
- Identifying conversation categories
Module Four - The Knowledge Management Life Cycle
- Understanding episodes
- Acquistion
- Knowledge
- Integration
Module Five - The New Knowledge Management Paradigm
- Paradigms of the past
- The new paradigm
- Implications and applications
- The knowledge management endgame
Module Six - Knowledge Management Models
- The nNnaka and Takeuchi Model (SECI)
- Wiig Model
- Kakabadse Model
- Boisot Model
Module Seven - Building a Knowledge Management Rationale
- Why rationale is necessary
- Building a business case
- Finding success stories
- The Commoditization / Customization Model
Module Eight - Customising Knowledge Management Definations
- Components of a knowledge management definition
- Customising the components
- Sample definitions
- Creating KMBOK
Module Nine - Implementing Knowledge Management in your Organisation
- Gathering support
- Identifying opportunities for revenue streams
- Key knowledge management techniques
- A map for success
- The no-budget scenario
Module Ten - Tips for Success
- About the chief knowledge officer
- Knowledge management skill checklist
- The knowledge management imperative
- The hype curve
- Barriers and helpers to success
Module Eleven - Advance Topics
- The knowledge management maturity model
- Absorptive capacity
- Rustiness
- Process model types
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Course 2 - Certificate In Fostering Innovation Online Course
Session One: Course Overview
- Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Creating an Innovative Environment
- What Does Fostering Innovation Mean?
- Creating an Innovative Environment
- Implementing Innovation in the Workplace
Session Three: Who Is Doing It Well?
- Case Study: Google
- The Best Business Activity
Session Four: A Leader’s Role in Innovation
- What Does an Innovative Leader Look Like?
- How to Be a Great Leader Activity
- Pre-Assignment Review
- Are You an Innovative Leader?
- Creating Employee Engagement
- How to Get Employees Involved
Session Five: Systems and Processes for Innovation
- Systems and Processes
- Types of Processes that Lead to Innovation
- Hiring the Best
- Creative Interviewing Activity
Session Six: Is it Okay to Fail?
- Failure in Innovation
- Shaping a New Mindset
Session Seven: Innovation and Teams
- Is Innovation a Team Sport?
- Diverse Teams
Session Eight: What Happens When You Foster Innovation
- Bringing it All Together
- Personal Action Plan
- Recommended Reading List
- Post-Course Assessment
- Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Key
- Pre-Course Assessment
- Post-Course Assessment
- Assignment Answer Key
Course 3 - Certificate In Growth Hacking Online Course
Session One: Course Overview
- Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Learning the Mindset
- Growth Hacking Defined
- Mantras of a Growth Hacker
- Making Connections: A Growth Recipe
Session Three: Framing the Need
- The Relationship
- Understanding Your Customers
- Making Connections: Who, What, How
- Product Market Fit (PMF)
- Making Connections: What Do You Know?
- Understanding Your Company
- Making Connections: Inviting and Using Feedback
Session Four: Making the Match
- Making the Match in Growth Hacking
- Relationships Reviewed
- Making Connections: Get the FAQs
- Building an Effective Audience
- Making Connections: An Enduring Outlook
- Elements of Negotiation
- Social and Emotional Intelligence
- Making Connections: Positive Outcome
- Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
- Making Connections: Your USP
Session Five: Going Live
- Process Steps
- Making Connections: Workplan Development
- Reaching Customers
- Making Connections: Making it Look Good
- Making Connections: Getting Noticed
- Creating a Project Plan
- Making Connections: Creating a Plan for Success
- Your Growth Hacking Outline
Session Six: Maximizing Results
- The Path to Growth Hacking Success
- Defining Success
- Learning to Experiment
- Making Connections: A Trial
Session Seven: Optimizing and Moving Forward
- Optimizing
- Ingredients for Optimization
- Examining your Ingredients
- Making Connections: Task Check
- Resources and Inspiration
- Searching for More Information Activity
- Personal Action Plan
- Course Summary
- Recommended Reading List
- Post-Course Assessment
- Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Keys
- Pre-Course Assessment
- Post- Course Assessment
- Assignment Answer Keys
Course 4 - Certificate In Business Acumen Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Seeing the Big Picture
- Short and long term interactions
- Recognize growth opportunities
- Mindfulness of decisions
- Everything is related
Module Three - KPI's (Key Performance Indicators)
- Decisiveness
- Flexible
- Strong initiative
- Being intuitive
Module Four - Risk Management Strategies
- Continuous assessment
- Internal and external factors
- Making adjustments and corrections
- Knowing when to pull the trigger or plug
Module Five - Recognizing Learning Events
- Develop a sense of always learning
- Evaluate past decisions
- Problems are learning opportunities
- Recognize your blind spots
Module Six - You Need to Know These Answers and More
- What makes my company money?
- What were sales last year?
- What is our profit margin?
- What were our costs?
Module Seven - Financial Literacy (Part 1)
- Assets
- Financial Ratios
- Liabilities
- Equity
Module Eight - Financial Literacy (Part 2)
- Income statement
- Balance sheet
- Cash flow statement
- Read, read and read
Module Nine - Business Acumen in Management
- Talent management
- Change management
- Asset management
- Organisational management
Module Ten - Critical Thinking in Business
- Ask the right questions
- Organise data
- Evalute the information
- Make the decision
Module Eleven - Key Financial Levers
- Investing in people
- Effective communication
- Process improvement
- Goal alignment
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Course 5 - Certificate In Six Sigma and Lean Process Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Understanding Lean
- About six sigma
- About lean
- History behind lean
- Toyota production systems
- The toyota precepts
Module Three - Liker's Toyota Way
- Philosophy
- Process
- People and partners
- Problem solving
Module Four - The TPS House
- The goals of TPS
- The first pillar - Just in time (JIT)
- The second pillar - Jidoka (Error-free production)
- Kaizen (Continuous improvement)
- The foundation of the house
Module Five - The Five Principles of Lean Business
- Value
- Value Stream
- Flow
- Pull
- Seek perfection
Module Six - The First Improvement Concept (Value)
- Basic characteristics
- Satisfiers
- Delighters
- Applying the Kano model
Module Seven - The Second Improvement Concept (Waste)
- Muda
- Mura
- Muri
- The new wasters
Module Eight - The Third Improvement Concept (Variation)
- Common cause
- Special cause
- Tampering
- Structural
Module Nine - The Fourth Improvement Concept (Complexity)
- What is complexity?
- What causes complexity?
- How to simplify?
Module Ten - The Fifth Improvement Concept (Continuous Improvement)
- The PDSA cycle (Plan, Do, Study, Act)
- The DMAIC method
Module Eleven - The Improvement Toolkit
- Gemba
- Genchi Genbutsu
- Womack's Principle
- Kaizen
- A roadmap for implementation
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Requirements
Entry requirements
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Computer requirements
Students will need access to a computer and the internet.
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Windows:
Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
MAC/iOS
OSX/iOS 6 or laterModern and up to date Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
All systems
Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
Students will also need access the following applications:
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Requirements
Entry requirements:
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education:
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Device requirements:
Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.
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About This Course
What you will learn - How to Manage Knowledge Across Your Organization
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Get BIG Savings with our Knowledge Management Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
- Knowledge Management
- Fostering Innovation
- Growth Hacking
- Business Acumen
- Six Sigma and Lean Process
1. Knowledge Management: How to Manage Knowledge Across Your Organization
The Encarta Dictionary defines knowledge management as the organization of intellectual resources and information systems within a business environment. Sounds pretty simple, right? Take a moment, though, and think about all the information that each person has in their brain. That's a lot of knowledge!
The Knowledge Management course will give you the tools that you will need to begin implementing knowledge management in your organization, no matter what the size of the company or the budget. Wherever there are humans working together for one goal, there is knowledge to be harvested, stored, and dispensed as needed.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the basic concept of knowledge management
- Identify the dos and don'ts of knowledge management
- Identify the knowledge management life cycle
- Identify the new knowledge management paradigm
- Identify the knowledge management models
- Understand how to build a knowledge management rational for your company
- Understand how to customize knowledge management definitions
- Identify the steps to implementing knowledge management in your organization
- Identify tips for success
- Understand the advance topics in knowledge management
2. Fostering Innovation: Learn to create an innovative workspace
This course covers the essential elements of fostering innovation in the workplace. You will understand ways they can create an innovative workspace, key traits associated with innovative leaders in the workplace, as well as specific processes and workflows that can be implemented to help their entire team become innovative thinkers. Having the tools at a teams’ fingertips, will entice them to come up with more innovative ideas, and increase the chances of success.
What will you learn with our Fostering Innovation Online Course?
- Ways to can create an innovative workspace
- Key traits associated with innovative leaders
- Implement specific processes and workflows
3. Growth Hacking: Learn to create your own growth hacking plan
The term “growth hacker” was created by Sean Ellis in 2010. He used the phrase in a blog post seeking people to take over the rapid-growth systems he was creating for start-up companies. The first step in successful growth hacking is accepting that it is not marketing. It has a mindset, processes, skills, and systems of its own.
What will you learn with our Growth Hacking Online Certificate Course?
- Identify the growth hacking mindset
- Recognize the differences between growth hacking and marketing
- Identify the customer need your business can fill
- Create and implement product placement and services to fit the need
- Learn and practice techniques
- Review and practice marketing strategies
- Identify the essentials of conversion and optimization
- Create your own plan
4. Business Acumen: Increase your Financial Literacy & Improve Business Sense
Improve your judgment and decisiveness skills. Business Acumen is all about seeing the big picture and recognizing that all decisions no matter how small can have an effect on the bottom line. Increase your financial literacy and improve business sense.
Business Acumen will give you an advantage everyone wishes they had. The Business Acumen Online Short Course will help you recognize learning events, manage risk better, and increase your critical thinking. Business Acumen has the ability to influence your whole organization, and provide that additional edge that will lead to success.
By the end of this Business Acumen Online Short Course, you will be able to:
- Know how to see the big picture
- Develop a risk management strategy
- Know how to practice financial literacy
- Develop critical thinking
- Practice management acumen
- Find key financial levers
5. Six Sigma and Lean Process: Eliminate Defects and Waste in Your Business Processes
Six Sigma is a data-driven approach for eliminating defects and waste in any business process. You can compare Six Sigma with turning your water faucet and experiencing the flow of clean, clear water. Reliable systems are in place to purify, treat, and pressure the water through the faucet. That is what Six Sigma does to business: it treats the processes in business so that they deliver their intended result.
Our Lean Process And Six Sigma course will provide an introduction to this way of thinking that has changed so many corporations in the world. This course will give you an overview of the Six Sigma methodology, and some of the tools required to deploy Six Sigma in own organizations.
By the end of this Six Sigma and Lean Process Online Short Course, you will be able to:
- Develop a 360 degree view of Six Sigma and how it can be implemented in any organization
- Identify the fundamentals of lean manufacturing, lean enterprise and lean principles
- Describe the key dimensions of quality - product features and freedom from deficiencies
- Develop attributes and value according to the Kano Model
- Understand how products and services that have the right features and are free from deficiencies can promote customer satisfaction and attract and retain new customers
- Describe what is required to regulate a process
- Give examples of how poor quality affects operating expenses in the areas of appraisal, inspection costs, internal failure costs and external failure costs
- Using basic techniques such as DMAIC and how to identify Six Sigma Projects
- Use specific criteria to evaluate a project
- Discover root causes of a problem
- Design and install new controls to hold the gains and to prevent the problem from returning
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
For comprehensive information on units of study click the units of study tab above.
This is an incredible opportunity to invest in yourself and your future, sharpen your training skills and learn what it takes to create your own success with Courses For Success Today!
Course Fast Facts:
- All courses are easy to follow and understand
- Only 6 to 8 hours of study is required per course
- Unlimited lifetime access to course materials
- Study as many courses as you want
- Delivered 100% on-line and accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone
- You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time
- Certificates
Course Delivery
Courses are accessed online via our learning management system by any device including PC, MAC, tablet or Smart Phone.
Recognition & Accreditation
The courses offered by Courses For Success are unique as they are taught in a step by step process enabling students to complete them quickly and easily, so that you can obtain your qualification sooner. All students who complete the course receive a certificate of completion. Courses For Success is committed to high completion rates and therefore 100% student satisfaction.
Units of Study
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
The Knowledge Management 5 Course Bundle includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course:
Course 1 - Certificate In Knowledge Management Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Understanding Knowledge Management
- What is knowledge?
- What is knowledge management?
- A brief history
- Applications in the workplace
Module Three - Dos and Dont's
- Data, information and knowledge
- The tactic mode
- The explicit mode
- Identifying conversation categories
Module Four - The Knowledge Management Life Cycle
- Understanding episodes
- Acquistion
- Knowledge
- Integration
Module Five - The New Knowledge Management Paradigm
- Paradigms of the past
- The new paradigm
- Implications and applications
- The knowledge management endgame
Module Six - Knowledge Management Models
- The nNnaka and Takeuchi Model (SECI)
- Wiig Model
- Kakabadse Model
- Boisot Model
Module Seven - Building a Knowledge Management Rationale
- Why rationale is necessary
- Building a business case
- Finding success stories
- The Commoditization / Customization Model
Module Eight - Customising Knowledge Management Definations
- Components of a knowledge management definition
- Customising the components
- Sample definitions
- Creating KMBOK
Module Nine - Implementing Knowledge Management in your Organisation
- Gathering support
- Identifying opportunities for revenue streams
- Key knowledge management techniques
- A map for success
- The no-budget scenario
Module Ten - Tips for Success
- About the chief knowledge officer
- Knowledge management skill checklist
- The knowledge management imperative
- The hype curve
- Barriers and helpers to success
Module Eleven - Advance Topics
- The knowledge management maturity model
- Absorptive capacity
- Rustiness
- Process model types
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Course 2 - Certificate In Fostering Innovation Online Course
Session One: Course Overview
- Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Creating an Innovative Environment
- What Does Fostering Innovation Mean?
- Creating an Innovative Environment
- Implementing Innovation in the Workplace
Session Three: Who Is Doing It Well?
- Case Study: Google
- The Best Business Activity
Session Four: A Leader’s Role in Innovation
- What Does an Innovative Leader Look Like?
- How to Be a Great Leader Activity
- Pre-Assignment Review
- Are You an Innovative Leader?
- Creating Employee Engagement
- How to Get Employees Involved
Session Five: Systems and Processes for Innovation
- Systems and Processes
- Types of Processes that Lead to Innovation
- Hiring the Best
- Creative Interviewing Activity
Session Six: Is it Okay to Fail?
- Failure in Innovation
- Shaping a New Mindset
Session Seven: Innovation and Teams
- Is Innovation a Team Sport?
- Diverse Teams
Session Eight: What Happens When You Foster Innovation
- Bringing it All Together
- Personal Action Plan
- Recommended Reading List
- Post-Course Assessment
- Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Key
- Pre-Course Assessment
- Post-Course Assessment
- Assignment Answer Key
Course 3 - Certificate In Growth Hacking Online Course
Session One: Course Overview
- Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Learning the Mindset
- Growth Hacking Defined
- Mantras of a Growth Hacker
- Making Connections: A Growth Recipe
Session Three: Framing the Need
- The Relationship
- Understanding Your Customers
- Making Connections: Who, What, How
- Product Market Fit (PMF)
- Making Connections: What Do You Know?
- Understanding Your Company
- Making Connections: Inviting and Using Feedback
Session Four: Making the Match
- Making the Match in Growth Hacking
- Relationships Reviewed
- Making Connections: Get the FAQs
- Building an Effective Audience
- Making Connections: An Enduring Outlook
- Elements of Negotiation
- Social and Emotional Intelligence
- Making Connections: Positive Outcome
- Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
- Making Connections: Your USP
Session Five: Going Live
- Process Steps
- Making Connections: Workplan Development
- Reaching Customers
- Making Connections: Making it Look Good
- Making Connections: Getting Noticed
- Creating a Project Plan
- Making Connections: Creating a Plan for Success
- Your Growth Hacking Outline
Session Six: Maximizing Results
- The Path to Growth Hacking Success
- Defining Success
- Learning to Experiment
- Making Connections: A Trial
Session Seven: Optimizing and Moving Forward
- Optimizing
- Ingredients for Optimization
- Examining your Ingredients
- Making Connections: Task Check
- Resources and Inspiration
- Searching for More Information Activity
- Personal Action Plan
- Course Summary
- Recommended Reading List
- Post-Course Assessment
- Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Keys
- Pre-Course Assessment
- Post- Course Assessment
- Assignment Answer Keys
Course 4 - Certificate In Business Acumen Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Seeing the Big Picture
- Short and long term interactions
- Recognize growth opportunities
- Mindfulness of decisions
- Everything is related
Module Three - KPI's (Key Performance Indicators)
- Decisiveness
- Flexible
- Strong initiative
- Being intuitive
Module Four - Risk Management Strategies
- Continuous assessment
- Internal and external factors
- Making adjustments and corrections
- Knowing when to pull the trigger or plug
Module Five - Recognizing Learning Events
- Develop a sense of always learning
- Evaluate past decisions
- Problems are learning opportunities
- Recognize your blind spots
Module Six - You Need to Know These Answers and More
- What makes my company money?
- What were sales last year?
- What is our profit margin?
- What were our costs?
Module Seven - Financial Literacy (Part 1)
- Assets
- Financial Ratios
- Liabilities
- Equity
Module Eight - Financial Literacy (Part 2)
- Income statement
- Balance sheet
- Cash flow statement
- Read, read and read
Module Nine - Business Acumen in Management
- Talent management
- Change management
- Asset management
- Organisational management
Module Ten - Critical Thinking in Business
- Ask the right questions
- Organise data
- Evalute the information
- Make the decision
Module Eleven - Key Financial Levers
- Investing in people
- Effective communication
- Process improvement
- Goal alignment
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Course 5 - Certificate In Six Sigma and Lean Process Online Course
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Understanding Lean
- About six sigma
- About lean
- History behind lean
- Toyota production systems
- The toyota precepts
Module Three - Liker's Toyota Way
- Philosophy
- Process
- People and partners
- Problem solving
Module Four - The TPS House
- The goals of TPS
- The first pillar - Just in time (JIT)
- The second pillar - Jidoka (Error-free production)
- Kaizen (Continuous improvement)
- The foundation of the house
Module Five - The Five Principles of Lean Business
- Value
- Value Stream
- Flow
- Pull
- Seek perfection
Module Six - The First Improvement Concept (Value)
- Basic characteristics
- Satisfiers
- Delighters
- Applying the Kano model
Module Seven - The Second Improvement Concept (Waste)
- Muda
- Mura
- Muri
- The new wasters
Module Eight - The Third Improvement Concept (Variation)
- Common cause
- Special cause
- Tampering
- Structural
Module Nine - The Fourth Improvement Concept (Complexity)
- What is complexity?
- What causes complexity?
- How to simplify?
Module Ten - The Fifth Improvement Concept (Continuous Improvement)
- The PDSA cycle (Plan, Do, Study, Act)
- The DMAIC method
Module Eleven - The Improvement Toolkit
- Gemba
- Genchi Genbutsu
- Womack's Principle
- Kaizen
- A roadmap for implementation
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Requirements
Entry requirements
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Computer requirements
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MAC/iOS
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All systems
Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
Students will also need access the following applications:
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Requirements
Entry requirements:
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education:
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Device requirements:
Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.
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