OU Lean Institute at the University of Oklahoma

Welcome to OU's Lean Institute

The OU Lean Institute offers a wide range of training, including

Lean Six Sigma White Belt, Green Belt and Black Belt certification
training in Lean, Six Sigma, 5S and Value Stream Mapping
CEU and academic credit
facilitation of rapid improvement events
custom designed training to match any organization’s needs

What is Lean?

Lean eliminates waste throughout the business. Lean is a systematic, continuous improvement approach that focuses activities on reducing waste while aligning them to allow goods or services to flow smoothly and efficiently through an organization. Waste is anything that costs you resources but adds no value to the customers you serve.

Leaders of a Lean organization are dedicated to developing a culture of continuous improvement, in which employees work to make their own jobs as efficient as possible. More about Lean ...

What is Six Sigma?

Six Sigma is a highly disciplined approach to decision-making that revolves around collecting data to analyze the true costs and benefits of operations. In its most simple sense, Six Sigma helps people focus on improving processes to make them as nearly perfect as possible through efforts to standardize and control processes.

The term “Six Sigma” relates to the number of mathematical defects in a process (a defect being any undesirable result). More about Six Sigma ...

What is SCOR?

The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is a standard used throughout many industries for supply chain management. It was created in order to improve communication between supply-chain partners. The SCOR model accomplishes this by detailing the relationship between each of the five management processes within the model plan, source, make, deliver and return. More about SCOR ...

Lean Courses

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Training Locations

OU's Lean Institute offers training at Rose State College’s Professional Development Center, as well as OU Health Science Center campus. We also work with clients to offer training programs at their facilities when this is preferred.

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Upcoming Events

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11/10/09
Lean Office: Free one-day introduction to applying Lean process improvement.
1/20/10
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification #1
1/23/10
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification #2

Please check back often as more course offerings are posted.

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Mission of the OU Lean Institute at OU

The mission of the OU Lean Institute at OU is to provide the highest quality interdisciplinary education to those seeking enterprise-wide transformation through dynamic, focused professional training.

We support continuous process improvement by providing quality instruction, training and coaching from a cadre of well-educated, highly experienced subject matter experts. Our instructors are specifically selected for their demonstrated experience in implementing the Lean, Six Sigma and SCOR techniques in the workplace and their ability to integrate these tools into the holistic approach to transformation.