The LAI Lean Academy Experience: Introductory Lean Six Sigma Curriculum

This paper reports on a decade-long undertaking to develop and widely deploy an introductory Lean Six Sigma curriculum. The origins, objectives and history of the effort are summarized, as is the content of the core three-day short course. Versions of the curriculum have been offered to over 1600 participants in 60 short course and semester long subjects taught by 45 different instructors in the US and Latin America. Over 180,000 visits have been made to the curriculum posted on MIT’s Open Courseware. Findings on the learning outcomes are presented based upon the extensive database complied from student feedback and self-assessment.