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THE STORY OF LSS IN ESTIEM: HOW IT STARTED AND HOW THE JOURNEY CONTINUES TODAY! The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) project is one of the youngest entities and still a baby compared to the long history of ESTIEM. We, as the leaders from different years of the Lean Six Sigma team, want to look back on the history of the Lean Six Sigma course and share with you how it has developed over time.
Jukka-Matti Turtiainen Local Group Lappeenranta and Helsinki Co-creator of Lean Six Signa Course It is amazing that people have put thousands of hours to make what the Lean Six Sigma Project is today. In the beginning, the motivation was to equip students with practical problem-solving skills that they can apply straight away and additionally provide them with opportunities which would be hard to get otherwise. The idea to develop the course sparked in the “Summer Academy” of 2014 and 2015, where Professor Gregory H. Watson was teaching about:
Izabela Preś Local Group Warsaw and Eindhoven Lean Six Sigma Project Leader 2017/18
“Intellectual roots of Industrial Engineering and my resume”. By the end of that event, depending
Meeting other students interested so much in the
on who is telling the story, it was either Jukkis’ or
Lean Six Sigma project back in 2016, during the
Greg’s idea to start developing the course for ES-
event in Romania, was a great moment for me to
TIEM.
realize how much we can achieve together once we have a similar passion. Meeting Greg there be-
There are probably several reasons for people’s
came a great inspiration and motivation to work
high involvement, one being that they have got so
on the LSS course in ESTIEM.
much added value out of the course and want to share it with others. Another one is that you learn
I joined the journey when there were 4 team mem-
a lot on the way. In some universities, students te-
bers but when I finished my mandate, there were
aching the course actually get paid for doing that
12 central team members, over 25 Lean Six Sigma
and some people just love ESTIEM.
Instructors, more than 200 ESTIEMers trained and
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