Lean & certifications

Process before tools

A dashboard does not fix a broken process: it makes it visible. That is useful, but not sufficient. Hence the Lean dimension.

Why it changes the conversation

Most dashboard requests are really process requests. When a report takes two weeks a month, the question is not “which tool” but “why two weeks”. Lean supplies the vocabulary and the discipline to ask it without putting teams on the defensive — and to measure the resulting gain.

Where Lean actually applies

  • A monthly close whose duration must come down from two weeks to a few days.
  • An approval chain where nobody knows which step creates the wait.
  • A master file nobody dares modify, now the bottleneck for an entire team.
  • A data exchange between two functions that breaks at every change of format — better standardised once than repaired each month.

And AI governance

The AI Governance / Strategy certification covers the part organisations most often take in reverse: deciding where AI creates value, under what data quality and ownership conditions, and with what controls. In practice it becomes one simple rule we apply on every engagement — no AI initiative until the master data holds.

Certifications

Lean and AI, certified — not merely claimed

Two certifications awarded by Hoshin Partners, a Lean and Lean Six Sigma training body in French-speaking Switzerland.

Hoshin Partners · Suisse romande

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

The discipline of process improvement, applied to what repeats: a monthly report, a closing cycle, an approval chain.

Hoshin Partners · Suisse romande

Gouvernance / Strategy AI

The governance framework for enterprise AI: where it creates value, under what data conditions, and with what controls.

Continuing education

The theoretical grounding behind change management

Two courses from the ESSEC Chair for Change Management, taken online through Coursera. They are not professional certifications, and we do not present them as such: they are the grounding behind the change management side of our engagements.

ESSEC Business School · Coursera

Managers du changement

January 2023. The executive’s role in a transformation: carrying the rationale, holding the course, and recognising resistance before it stalls the programme.

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ESSEC Business School · Coursera

Réussir le Changement

November 2022. What makes a transformation take hold in an organisation, or fail to, and the levers a leadership team actually has.

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