Charles F. Knight, Chairman Emeritus, Reveals Insights Into Emerson’s Acclaimed Management Process at The Annual ASQ St. Louis Quality Conference April 5-7, 2006
St. Louis, MO (ContentDesk) February 1, 2006 -- ASQ St. Louis Section 1304, one of the largest ASQ sections in the United States, celebrates its 60th anniversary this year at its annual quality conference April 5-7, 2006.
This year the topic is Working Smarter, Not Harder.
Guest speakers from manufacturing, health care, services, and consulting industries will be on hand.
Im very excited about the conference, it will be our biggest and best quality conference yet said Rob Herhold, ASQ 1304 chair.
Quality is really the primary means of building an effective, efficient organization and our section is working hard to get the message out. The Annual ASQ Section 1304 St. Louis Quality Conference seeks to facilitate continuous improvement and increased customer satisfaction by identifying, communicating, and promoting the use of quality principles, concepts, and technology.Charles F. Knight, Chairman Emeritus, Emerson, will deliver the Keynote address, explaining in detail with examples from his new book, Performance Without Compromise, how the Emerson management process helped transform the company from a technology follower to a global leader in its major markets.St. Louis Quality Conference attendees and presenters include industry professionals in the areas of manufacturing, education, software, health care, and services who deal with international standards, product development and support, leadership development, and innovation within the world of quality.Six Pre-Conference Workshops: Implementing Lean Thinking Chris Anderson, Bizmanualz; ISO 9001 Internal Auditing, John Duffy, Bizmanualz; Selecting Six Sigma Projects Jim Duarte ASQ Fellow; Survey Design and Analysis Jim Duarte ASQ Fellow; Using Statistical Process Control (SPC) Steve Mundwiller; and the People Side of Process Improvement Jim Sealy Dale Carnegie Institute.Three Conference Tracks: People and Processes - Learn the cultural, human, organizational and management issues that must be overcome; Safety and Health Care - Understand and make the business case for change; Quality Tools and Standards - Discover the role quality plays in bringing true business performance improvements.Twelve Quality Presentations will cover:1. People and Processes???- Buy-in for process improvement, Dan Davision, BentonsEdge???- People Side of Process Improvement, Jim Sealy Dale Carnegie Institute???- Quality Leadership, G.
Dennis Beecroft, ASQ Fellow???- Monitoring, managing and aligning processes with organizational strategy, Kent Busse, Transition/12. Safety and Health Care???- Applying DFSS to reduce order entry errors, Yani Benitez, BJC Healthcare???- Reducing variation to increase compliance, Jan McDonald, BJC Healthcare???- Using lean to save blood, Kevin Johnson, SSM Healthcare???- ISO 9000 in health care, Robert Tietjen, Policy Technologies International3. Quality Tools and Standards???- Understanding measurement uncertainty, Craig Hoel, Boeing???- Understanding quality standards, Gerad Kelly, CVA International???- The role of an effective Quality Management System in satisfying the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Larry Stapleton, Milliken University???- The Lean 6-Sigm Improvement Journey, Cyril Narishkin, Essex IndustriesConference Sponsors include: Anheuser Busch, Boeing, St. Louis Small Business Monthly, Bizmanualz, eProcessManager, Policy Technologies, and Quality Testing Services. This years updated conference program features 18 different speakers from three different countries, four different states and five different Fortune 1000 companies
explains Chris Anderson, ASQ 1304 chair-elect and Quality Conference Chair.
Numerous case studies, workshops, and presentations will allow you to gain insights from your peers about their challenges, best practices, and lessons learned in businesses across multiple industries ranging from defense, aerospace, health care, manufacturing, academia, software, and accounting. ASQ St.
Louis mission is to facilitate continuous improvement and increased customer satisfaction by identifying, communicating, and promoting the use of quality principles, concepts, and technology, and thereby be recognized throughout the St. Louis Bi-State region as the leading authority on and champion for quality.For more information, contact: Steve Mundwiller, ASQ 314-239-4685.
Who Will be Crowned the ?Royal Schmoozer? of Silicon Valley?
What is a Royal Schmoozer? It's the person who's always on the chicken dinner circuit, goes everywhere, knows everyone, the wheeler & dealer, the mover & shaker, the sweet-talker, big-time networker, mega-mingler, you got the picture, right????The Royal Schmoozer of Silicon Valley title is bestowed upon a worthy individual once a year at the annual Schmooze Fiesta hosted by the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and Marketing Maniacs. Past titleholders include Lina Broydo, PR maven for the Fairmont Hotel and our beloved Tax Assessor Larry Stone. "The art of schmoozing is an essential social, career and life skill.
Many people at the top of their fields are excellent schmoozers. They know how to connect with people and are able to leverage those connections.
We wish to honor the schmoozer of all schmoozers amongst us." says Darlene Tenes, CEO of Marketing Maniacs.For those in need of a lesson on the art of schmoozing, guest speaker Susan RoAne
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From the Villages of India to the Suburbs of America - the Book that Can Help Millions to Read
If your idea of learning a new language means plowing through endless stacks of cassette tapes, think again. Thanks to BookBox, the innovative brainchild of a team of Stanford University students, a language- learning revolution is about to begin.In a nutshell, BookBox is a digital "jukebox" of animated books, each available in multiple languages ranging from Spanish and French to Hindi and Chinese. Based on the science of Same Language Subtitling (SLS), BookBox synchronizes the text, audio, and visual media so that your 4 year-old child can now read a story on his own -- simply by listening to the narration and following it word by word in the subtitles. Or if your child wants to learn Spanish, she can simply turn on English and Spanish subtitles, and listen to a Spanish audio narration. You get the idea: www.bookbox.com Non-English speakers in the US, especially young children, will find BookBox particularly useful as...
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Ilene Dillon?s ?Full Power Living? Helps You Conquer Clutter, with Clutter-Busting Handbook Author Rita Emmett
(ContentDesk) July 6, 2005 -- Recovering Procrastinator and Recovering Packrat, Rita Emmett, tells all on Full Power Living with host Ilene Dillon, M.S.W., Tuesday, July 12, (9 a.m. PST on World Talk Radio), revealing secrets from her newest book:
The Clutter-Busting Handbook.????????Rita Emmett discusses the four habits that underlie the accumulation of clutter and gives a plan and tips for taming clutter.
She'll be discussing how to tame clutter once and for all, and how to establish systems so things can be found more easily.
Rita Emmett is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and talks with both wit and wisdom.
Rita Emmett, M.A., born the world's greatest procrastinator and the world's biggest packrat, is now in Recovery.
She has been presenting Keynotes and Seminars to businesses and organizations since 1978, was adjunct faculty at Triton and Chicago City Colleges for over 15 years, was published in the Great Speakers...
Ilene Dillon?s ?Full Power Living? Helps You Conquer Clutter, with Clutter-Busting Handbook Author Rita Emmett
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