Catalyst has trained over 1000 Black Belts in GE (General Electric) across Europe.
Catalyst is an accredited Lean Six Sigma training organisation for Sun Microsystems. We have trained over 1500 Sun Microsystems employees in 'Sun Sigma' across Europe.
The UK Bank, Lloyds TSB, chose Catalyst as its partner for their Process Excellence initiative which is based on Six Sigma principles. We have trained and mentored people in this organisation up to Master Black Belt level.
Catalyst has worked with four major UK banks on Lean Six Sigma Deployment.
Saint Gobain - the French Multinational Glass and Insulation manufacturer selected Catalyst for its Lean Six Sigma Deployment across its Scandinavian ISOVER plants. This major roll-out programme has been running for over 3 years with Catalyst support.
BAA the UK Airport Operator selected Catalyst for training and coaching in DMAIC and Design for Lean Six Sigma. Over 12 waves of training each of 10 days have taken place as part of this programme.
The UK mobile phone company O2 chose Catalyst as its strategic partner on the implementation and roll out of Lean Six Sigma (Process Excellence) across the company.
Catalyst worked with the North West Wales NHS Trust on the use of Lean Six Sigma, one of the first NHS Trusts to use Lean Six Sigma in practice 'on the ground' in the UK National Health Service.
Catalyst is working with a large NHS GP Partner Practice on a change management programme. Catalyst initially carried out an organisation wide review then introduced a process based organisation, has run several rapid improvement events using lean and six sigma tools and techniques. Patient access has already been dramatically improved.
Catalyst was employed as lead consultant in developing a company wide management system based on business processes by one of the new London Underground infrastructure companies.
Catalyst has been appointed as Lean Six Sigma supplier to the British Quality Foundation (BQF). The BQF Lean Six Sigma service is based entirely on Catalyst training materials.
Catalyst Consultants are frequently called upon to speak at conferences as the acknowledged experts in Lean Six Sigma and Business Excellence. At a major IQPC conference in London we had three speaking slots, all as partners with our clients (BT Retail; Sun Microsystems; British Quality Foundation).
Catalyst is unusual in that we can combine the use of the Excellence Model with Lean Six Sigma improvement techniques. Catalyst won a competitive tendering exercise to provide the EFQM with a series of 2 day 'How to' workshops for its members to help organisations implement Lean Six Sigma successfully. We also run EFQM workshops on 'How to Assess and Improve Organisational Processes' in Brussels.
On one project alone a Catalyst Consultant saved an organisation £47m using Lean Six Sigma methods.
Catalyst worked with the European Social Fund and GE to develop a business improvement toolkit for use in Small Medium Businesses. This is based on Lean Six Sigma methods. Small companies using this approach saved from £10k to £200k on their first improvement project.
Two of the best known Management Consultancy organisations in the world are using Catalyst to provide training in Lean Six Sigma techniques to their consultants (we can not name these clients for confidentiality reasons).
Catalyst has a benchmarking database of Lean Six Sigma Deployment experience with over 50 large organisations experiences tracked statistically. We provide a deployment healthcheck service which allows you to compare your deployment against this benchmarking data to help you improve your organisation's deployment.