Improving Productivity through Quality Enhancement and Cost Reduction

This course relies on the use of exercises and workshops to engage participants and help them learn new concepts and practices. Group and plenary discussions will be used and participants will be required to debate and present their findings. In addition, videos with different case studies will be presented.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define productivity and various types of organizational waste
• Identify areas of poor productivity due to poor quality and suggest ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Justify and apply quality improvement tools and techniques in order to improve productivity
• Apply several cost reduction strategies in order to meet changing global, statutory and market conditions
• Recognize and apply measuring initiatives and set targets in order to improve productivity

Managers, supervisors and all those who are responsible for, or indirectly involved in, a cost or profit center or a quality improvement function.

• Problem solving
• Change management
• Applying quality
• Understanding cost reduction
• Applying Lean
• Understanding Six Sigma