Case Study
Credit Suisse revitalizes & expands operational excellence program
The Challenge Credit Suisse launched a process improvement initiative in its Private Banking operations in Zurich, Switzerland. The initiative, called “operational excellence,” or OE used Lean Sigma as the core methodology. Within two years, the success was so great that CEO Oswald Grübel mandated a companywide deployment of OE, to include Investment Banking, Asset Management and Shared Services. Faced with the challenge of crossing glo