Choose a Course with Almice Business Institute

We offer you a wide portfolio of courses focusing on efficiency, process improvement, data analysis, quality, financial literacy, strategic planning, implementation of new technologies and many others. You can take the courses as individuals (open courses but also personal coaching) or as closed groups, for example corporate courses. You can also choose between face-to-face courses, online courses as well as courses at your company. Our flexibility is the first step towards your satisfaction. If you have any questions about the content of the courses, registering for the courses, course organization, fees, certification or anything related to the courses, do not hesitate to contact us: office@almice.com

Courses with Certification

Six Sigma courses have the highest salary growth prospects, which is why they are so popular all over the world and in all economic sectors.

Yellow Belt: Entry level of Six Sigma; target groups are common team members or students preparing for entering theire first job; there are no preconditions and it takes 16 hours of training; certification requires to pass a short final exam.

Green Belt: First expert level of Six Sigma; target groups are project managers and persons responsible for problem solving, as well as the management candidates; there are no preconditions to become a Green Belt; course duration is 80 hours; successfull certification requires to pass an exam and to submit an improvement project.

Black Belt: Advanced expert of Six Sigma; target groups are quality and improvement managers and everyone who is accountable for process development in a company; candidates must be already a certified Green Belts (precondition); course duration is further 80 hours in addition to Green Belt training; successfull certification requires to pass an exam and to submit a larger scale improvement project with significant impact.

Master Black Belt: The one, who set up the improvement direction in the company or in a corporation; candidates must be already a certified Black Belts (precondition); course duration is further 60 hours in addition to Black Belt training; successfull certification requires to pass an exam and to defend a strategic improvement project (so called Breakthrough).

Lean courses are a ticket to the club of critical employees of any company and organization. Often, expertise in Lean is a prerequisite for managing the position of plant manager or CEO.

Lean Professional: Advanced expert of Six Sigma; target groups are quality and improvement managers and everyone who is accountable for process development in a company; candidates must be already a certified Green Belts (precondition); course duration is further 80 hours in addition to Green Belt training; successfull certification requires to pass an exam and to submit a larger scale improvement project with significant impact.

Lean Master: The one, who set up the improvement direction in the company or in a corporation; candidates must be already a certified Black Belts (precondition); course duration is further 60 hours in addition to Black Belt training; successfull certification requires to pass an exam and to defend a strategic improvement project (so called Breakthrough).

Executive programs offer the opportunity to develop managers from middle to top board member positions.

Digital Transformation Executive Program: This program will help managers transform companies and take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technologies. The program duration is 96 hours, and successful certification consists of defending a transformation project.

Advanced Business Strategy Executive Program: This program is intended for managers and top managers, candidates must demonstrate at least 5 years of experience in a middle management position, the duration of the program is 160 hours, and successful certification consists of defending examples of 2 strategic projects..

Data Analysis

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. But once you have data, it's important to know how to work with it and use it to your advantage.

Analytical Skill - General Overview: Principles of analysis, data types, tools for particular data types, results interpretation. Duration 32 hours.

Employee Life Cycle based on Data: Explains how data can help a company better manage human capital and human resources. Useful for HR professionals and managers. Duration 8 hours.

Managerial Predictions: For those who need to use data more effectively in their managerial position to be able to predict and estimate more accurately in the foreseeable future. Duration 16 hours.

Marketing Based on Data: Successful marketing is rarely a coincidence. It is mostly a matter of analyzing data trends, analyzing data about target groups, evaluating experiments to set the right parameters, and much more. Duration 32 hours.

Digital Transformation and AI

Our courses will help you navigate the dark forests of new technologies that are currently changing the entire way we work.

AI and Fundamentals of Machine Learning: What is AI, types and forms of AI, how do machine learn, disruptive changes due to AI. Duration 8 hours.

Digital Transformation of Processes: How to transfomr processes due to digitalization, preventing simple digitalisation of current processes withou transformation. Duration 8 hours.

Industry 4.0: Main topics of Industry 4.0; creating a strong usecase and strategy for implementation; examples of success and struggles. Duration 8 hours.

New Technology Implementation Process of implementation, change management, standardization, stability after implementation of new technologies. Duration 8 hours.

Preparing for Digital Transformation: Maturity audit, "must have" before any digital transformation starts, action plan for tasks before digital transformation can start. Duration 8 hours.

Transparent Company: Mapping information flows, visualising the information, interconnectibility, further actions and way of working in transparent company. Duration 8 hours.

Use and Limits of AI in Company Processes: Many usecases of AI implementation, parameters of successfull implementation, pittfals and reasons for failure. Duration 8 hours.

Finance

We do not offer investment courses. We offer courses that help managers and professionals to navigate the world of finance.

Finance for non-financial managers: Most managers without a financial education have trouble even reading financial statements, let alone evaluating the financial stability of a customer or supplier. The overview course lasts 8 hours.

Finance for non-financial professionals: Professionals who earn high amounts of money thanks to specific know-how outside of finance are the main victims of financial consultants (predators). The training offers an overview of how to secure yourself financially in 8 hours.

Finance for professional athletes, singers, and actors: People successful thanks to their exceptional talent, earn an unusually high amount in certain years. And thus attract financial predators. They can learn how to defend themselves and how to stay financially safe within 24 hours.

Financial literacy for common employees: Many employees become poor not because the company doesn't pay enough, but because they have limited financial literacy. They then transfer their frustration with everyday life to work, claiming that they earn too little. Duration 8 hours.

Global Accounting Principles: According to IFRS and GAAP, duration 24 hours.

Sustainable Finance for Companies: Costs, assets, cash flows, liabilities, sources of financing, dividends; duration 16 hours.

Efficiency Management and Lean

Our wide selection of courses will help your company become more efficient and lean.

5S - Including Implementation: The organisation of workplace, inlcuding auditing ans best practices. Duration 8 hours.

Auditing Lean Maturity: Gemba walks, process control audit, layered lrocess audit, maturity levels of lean. Duration 8 hours.

Continuous Improvement and Kaizen: Systematic improvement process, improvement as a physlosophy, searching for improvement possibilities. Duration 8 hours.

Energy Management: General overview, energy consumption and wasted energy, prevention, possible actions. Duration 8 hours.

Ergonomy of Workplaces: Assembly manufacturing, continuous production, maintenance, warehouses and shops, ergonomy in offices. Course takes 8 hours.

Layouts of Plants and Warehouses: Micro layer, middle layer and macro layer of production layout, designing warehouses. Duration 8 hours.

Lean Management: This is not only about Lean Manufacturing but about Lean Services and Lean Projects as well. Includes wastehunting in every situation. Duration 24 hours.

Logistics: Material planning, internal logistics, external logistics, calculations and predictions.

Process Mapping: Flow charts, process tree, process model, parameters, layers of mapping. duration 8 hours.

Production Planning: Types of planning, pull and push principles, kanban, buffers, KPIs for planning. Duration 8 hours.

SMED and Quick Changeovers: Systematic shortening of idle times dou to change of production. Course duration is 8 hours.

Supply Chain Management: Types of supply chains, behavior in a supply chain, planning in a suplpy chain, value streams across continents (in a suply chain). Course takes 8 hours.

Value Stream Mapping and Management: Simple value stream maps, multi product value stream maps, mapping service value streams. Duration 8 hours.

Work Norms: Direct and indirect methods for determining the work norms, including their application. Duration 16 hours.

Project Management

The courses cover the entire typology of projects and will provide you with the tools to successfully manage any types of projects.

Agile Project Management: New project management approach, mainly used in IT world. Duration 16 hours.

Change Management: Conducting changes successfully. Duration 8 hours.

Hybrid Project Management: Combination of waterfal and agile approaches in project management. Duration 16 hours.

Multiproject and Program Management: Managing complex projects and project portfolio. Duration 16 hours.

Product Developmend Project and Process: Special version of project management from decission about a new product to its launch. Duration 16 hours.

Risk Analysis for Projects based on FMEA: Risk evaluation for project managers with a special evaluation catalogue. Duration 16 hours.

Software Development Projects: Duration 16 hours.

Time management in Projects: Duration 8 hours.

Waterfall Project Management: Classic project management, with planning in advance in a Gantt chart. Duration 24 hours.

Quality

Quality is the best recipe. But to achieve it, you need to master a large number of useful tools.

8D and Quality Related Problem Solving: How to handle customer complaints, overview of problem solving tools and their use (8D, PDCA, A3, DMAIC, TRIZ, FIA, BoB-WoW). Duration 8 hours.

APQP and PPAP: A mandatory part of the production start-up in the automotive industry. The course lasts 8 hours.

Auditing: How to conduct audits, how to set up an audit, quality audit, layered process audit and process control audit, examples of Lean audits, 5S audits, ethical principles of audits, soft skills fundamentals for audits. Duration 16 hours.

Design of Experiments: Correct setting of process parameters based on a limited number of trials. Duration 8 hours.

Measurement System Analysis: Bias, stability and linearity; precision and accuracy; Gage R&R and Attributive R&R; Duration 16 hours.

Online Process Control: Tools and options for evaluating processes with continuous data collection, including examples. Duration 8 hours.

Quality Function Deployment: Transferring requirements from the customer to the company process and transforming them into measurable and controllable parameters. Duration 8 hours.

Quality in Services and Non-manufacturing Processes: Evaluation of quality in processes without physical products. Duration 8 hours.

Statistical Process Control: Pareto, histograms, CMK-PPK-CpK, stability and control charts, correlation and regression, hypothesis testing. Duration 32 hours.

Risk Analysis Based on FMEA

FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) is a fundamental risk assessment method in the automotive industry. But its application is much broader. Even its origins are not in the automotive industry.

Automotive FMEA according to IATF: Fundamental tool for Risk Analysis. Process FMEA, Product FMEA or Design FMEA, DRBFM, Evaluation and Actions. Duration 32 hours.

Process Risk Analysis for Services: Special tool for evaluation of process risks in banks, IT, retail, and all the service areas. Duration 16 hours.

Risk Analysis for Continuous Processes: The nature of risks in continuous processes differs from discrete production. And so does the process FMEA. Duration 24 hours.

Risk Analysis for Projects based on FMEA: Risk evaluation for project managers with a special evaluation catalogue. Duration 16 hours.

Strategic Management

Being a manager is not easy. Some people have more talent, some people have more effort. But there are also tools that every top manager should master in order to steer a company towards success.

Benchmarking: Systematic comparison of our company with other companies (both competitive and non-competitive) with the aim of improving. Duration 24 hours.

Business as a System: The course will help you find the right place for your business and give you an overview of the management tools you need to operate your company systematically. The course lasts 8 hours.

Globalization and Pitfalls in a Global Environment: Globalization brings many positives that you can use to your advantage. Especially when some superpowers close the door to globalization. But it also brings with it pitfalls that you need to understand in order to survive in the global world. Duration 8 hours.

Choosing a Location for Operations and Production: Local level, regional level, global level - the selection of the right location is more than essential to your business. All the factors and calculations will be explained in 8 hours.

Indicators: You will learn the difference between lagging and leading indicators, measures and metrics, as well as how to correctly define KPIs. Duration 8 hours.

Managerial Predictions: For those who need to use data more effectively in their managerial position to be able to predict and estimate more accurately in the foreseeable future. Duration 16 hours.

Soft Skills Fundamentals for Managers: Presentation and moderation skills, feedback, situational management, motivation, sponsorship, delegation. A brief overview in 32 hours.

Strategic Planning: From Vision to Actions - Hoshin Kanri, Steering Committee, Balanced Scorecard, Breakthroughs. Duration 16 hours.

Vision and Mission: 3 ways of defining the company vision. Duration 8 hours.