A prominent LSS practitioner, business coach and strategy consultant, Sachin is universally respected as one of the most insightful, humble, influential and recommended process consultant and LSS trainer. He is one of the well known names in the industry for Lean Six Sigma expertise and training delivery.

He has enabled organisations across industries, including Fortune 500 companies, to improve operations efficiency and drive critical business outcomes. His skillset includes lean six sigma, project management, business process re-engineering, strategic leadership, design thinking and change management.

He is known for using his diverse life experiences to deliver seemingly complex concepts in easy to understand, simplified stories. His storytelling ability and humour keeps participants glued to their seats and his focus on applicability at work ensure tangible returns.

About Sachin

He comes from Amravati, a small district place in Maharashtra, India but have spend most of his time in Pune and Hyderabad. He is a computer science graduate from Amravati University and a Post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow majoring in Marketing and Business Strategy with a minor in Operations Management.

He has been into many things in the last decade. Founding and running his own startups, working for early stage startups, consulting for eCommerce businesses, being a visiting faculty for management institutes, coaching MBA aspirants for entrance exams, mentoring management students to crack their placement interviews and so on.

But what he enjoys the most is working as a Black Belt / Master Black Belt for some of the most established corporations, known for driving Lean and Six Sigma at the core of their operations. And the most fascinating part of these roles was always facilitating Lean and Six Sigma trainings’ and mentoring LSS projects.

In his various roles, he had the privilege of leading process excellence, and improving and transforming the Finance and Accounting processes, of some of the biggest Consumer product group, healthcare, Life Sciences, Retail, Transportation and Logistics, Hi-Tech and Internet companies.

Why this blog

Lets hear it in his own words

As part of my roles, I facilitated more than 250 sessions on various Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, Green Belt trainings and Black Belt workshops, touching upwards of 5000 working executives across management levels. That is more than 2500 hours spent on training executives on LSS and another 5000+ hours on driving / mentoring LSS projects.

In all of these sessions, at-least at the start of these sessions, there was one particular concern that was common. The trainees, more often than not and irrespective of they being junior associates or senior executives, were from a non-statistical background. Specially in the FnA or Finance side of the business. They knew finance for sure, they also understood mathematics. But, they had little to no understanding of statistics, probability or any related concept. To add to it, all of them believed that practicing Lean Six Sigma would be extremely difficult without the statistical background.

What I realized in all these sessions is that the most important part in LSS adoption and usage was to break this myth at the very beginning. To make the participants understand that, to drive an LSS project, the statistics needed is not that complex. And this can be done by breaking down the seemingly complex concepts into simpler, easy to understand pieces.

I followed the same strategy in all my sessions and the results were very encouraging. The feedback received post all these sessions showed a huge increase in understanding these concepts and the usage increased many folds.

This blog is about all I have learned and is an honest attempt to share the same with you.

What will you find in this blog

What you will find in this blog are posts related to Lean and Six Sigma concepts, tools and techniques, explained in an easy to understand language. I will also give you step by step directions on how to identify, select and scope the right LSS project, how to drive an LSS project through various methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, BPMS, DFSS, DMADV etc.), what tools to use in each of the project phases, how to identify and quantify the business benefit from such projects and so on. You will also find common, best practices that you could use in your day to day job to make it leaner, simpler and how to back up your or test your hypothesis using data.

All that you will read here can be effectively used to improve your existing processes, build new efficient processes, manage your work better and drive value for your businesses.

The LSS knowledge can prove useful to working professional from across all domains and industries and for graduate / management students alike.

Hope you benefit from the posts.

Get in touch with Sachin

If you have any feedback or suggestions, if you want me to write on any particular topic, if you need help with any LSS tool or concept or if you wish to contribute to this blog as a guest writer, please feel free to drop me a note. Happy to hear from you.

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