Monthly Membership Meeting Agenda
When: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Where: The Engineer’s Club, 4359 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO
Program:
5:30 PM - Registration Begin
6:00 PM - Before Dinner Presentation
7:00 PM - Dinner: free beer and wine along with steaks grilled by members of the Leadership Committee
8:00 PM - After Dinner Presentation
Invite your friends and co-workers to join us. It’s a great networking opportunity!
Click here to register online
ASQ St. Louis members who register and prepay online by Friday, September 17th, for membership meetings are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25.
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org
Come enjoy a wonderful dinner, listen to excellent speakers, and a great social event!
Before Dinner Presentation: Quest for Best: “Case studies of problems faced by quality giants of the past”
Presenter: Bill Blackburn
Mr. Blackburn is known globally in quality circles as Wild Bill — has had the rare chance to study, work, and hob knob over 40 years with quality folks at all organization levels and across functional lines. These include all Honorary Members of the American Society for Quality since the Dr. Juran’s induction in 1968.
This presentation will focus on Bill’s experience with some top guns in the never-ending pursuit of excellence. Based on requests from members of the St. Louis Section of ASQ, these will include some of the following case studies from these quality giants of the past:
o Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa’s Cause & Effect Fishbone Diagram in Quality Circles;
o Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s colored-beads experiment boosts Japanese quality and economy;
o Philip B. Crosby’s “Quality is Free” with “Zero Defects”;
o Dr. Frank M. Gryna’s continuous quality improvement by applying Basic Statistical Methods;
o Dr. Joseph M. Juran’s Pareto Principal and Quality Trilogy pave the way for CQI, QFD, TQM, etc.
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After Dinner Presentation: “Optimize Project Results Using Quality Tools”
Presenter: Kim Rochetti
Kim is a respected and accomplished Performance Excellence Leader with extensive Six Sigma, Lean, Change Management and Project Management expertise in manufacturing, healthcare, and office environments. Known as an effective and credible leader able to build and motivate high performance teams that deliver optimal results. A strategic leader and certified ASQ Quality Engineer and Black Belt and PMI Project Management Professional recognized for skill and ability to achieve bottom line results.
At this presentation, Kim will share with you how to optimize project results using Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, and Project Management tools. These tools complement each other very well and they help build commitments, get to the real root cause, manage your time, and streamline processes for maximum results. Come see how to best utilize these important tools and gain more momentum and better results.
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