ASQ e-News: January 2009
In This Edition: Upcoming Professional Development Dinner Meeting, One Day Workshop Seminar: “Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard”, Six Sigma (SIG) January Meeting, ASQ Membership Survey, Volunteer Opportunities
ASQ Events
| Professional Development Dinner Meeting | January 20, 2009 | 5:30-7:30pm | NCSU University ClubGoogle Map |
Speaker: Forrest W. Breyfogle III, CEO and president of Smarter Solutions, Inc.
Topic: “Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard - Introducing the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System”.
(More detail is available at http://asqraleigh.org/2008/12/january-professional-development-dinner-meeting.)
5:30 - 6:00pm Networking
6:00 - 6:30pm Dinner and Announcements ($20 Members & Non-Members / $10 Students)
6:30 - 7:30pm Presentation
| One Day Workshop Seminar: “Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard” | January 21, 2009 | 8:30am-4:30pm | NCSU University ClubGoogle Map |
Instructor: Forrest W. Breyfogle III, CEO and president of Smarter Solutions, Inc. (Instructor Bio above)
- Are business goals not being met?
- Do you have all the right tools, but still find yourself wasting time firefighting the same problems over and over again?
- Does your organization simply tell stories when reporting metrics but the metrics don’t seem to be improving?
- Are projects either not getting completed or, when completed, don’t seem to impact the bottom-line as much as claimed?
This one-day seminar with renowned Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement expert and author Forrest Breyfogle helps organizations address these issues and more. Competitive pressures are forcing executives to react faster to changing business conditions and customer requirements. Line managers and decision-makers need to have an efficient and effective system for day-to-day business operation with access to performance metrics that lead to the most appropriate activities. In short, what’s needed is a performance measurement and improvement system to drive financial and operational success: Integrated Enterprise Excellence.Come learn from Forrest Breyfogle how to address these issues using the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system, which goes beyond Lean Six Sigma and The Balanced Scorecard. IEE helps orchestrate the three R’s of business (everyone doing the Right things and doing them Right at the Right time).
Full detail and brochure is available at: http://www.asqraleigh.org/enrichment/education
| Six Sigma Special Interest Group (SIG) | January 27, 2009 | 6-7:30pm | Nortel Networks Google Map |
Free (Register Online)
Speaker: Bob Carter
Topic: Kaizen Event in the Robotic Weldment Cell at Morton Metalcraft (Apex, NC)
Bob will cover the following areas during his presentation: Setting objectives, team selection, ground rules, facilitating the event, reporting out, post-event tracking and lessons learned.
| Membership Satisfaction Survey |
You may have received the ASQ Membership Survey this week on “How Can Your ASQ Section Serve You Better?”
Please take a few minutes at your earliest convenience to complete this important survey as we need your feedback on how well ASQ Raleigh, Section 1113, is serving your needs.
We appreciate your participation!
Use the following URL by January 31, 2009, to give us your feedback: http://www.asq.org/mr/09-sect-sat.html
| Volunteer Opportunities |
Build your certification credits and gain valuable networking by volunteering on the ASQ Raleigh Leadership Council. We are currently building the 2009-2010 team and would love to hear from you! Please contact tauna.schachle@siemens.com or angela.hall@zencos.com for more information.