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4th Annual Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week 2008
Transforming Process Improvement into sustainable Performance Excellence through creative Lean Six Sigma, strategic innovation & total business alignment
September 16 - 19, 2008 · Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, IL


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4th Annual Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week – bigger and better than ever before

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Special Team Discount!

Register 2 delegates from your organization and the 3rd attends for free!

Additional discounts are available for teams of 8 or more

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Great networking, tool exposure & speakers gems of wisdom
Troy Nielson, Medquist attendee & speaker at the Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week 2007
It has been a very valuable experience in terms of how other companies have launched Lean Six Sigma & to learn from their successes & mistakes
Loren Bartz, attendee at the Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week 2007

Year-on-year, Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week has delivered the ultimate tools and advice that you need to optimize ROI and cost-savings from Lean deployment, as well as deliver unbeatable value to the customer.

And this year we’ve stepped the Week up a level! LEAN SIX SIGMA IMPROVEMENT WEEK 2008 has even more focus panels, networking opportunities, technology demonstrations and Q&A than any other year. With the current business climate more and more Lean Six Sigma companies this year are taking a strategic focus on PERFORMANCE, driving not only cost savings, but sustainable business strategies and unbeatable customer loyalty. Thanks to your feedback you’ll find all this directly on the hand tailored 2008 agenda.

So what’s new?

toyota_cult jeffrey_k Exclusive Lean insight from industry guru and bestselling author of The Toyota Way, Dr Jeffrey K. Liker, PLUS personalised book signing of Liker’s brand new book Toyota Culture.

This year you can hear the latest strategic insights for deployment senior level representation from:

nancy_plewsNancy J. Plews
Worldwide Director KOS and Quality, Graphic Communications Group
Eastman Kodak Co.
hitendra_ghoshHitendra Ghosh
VP & CQO
Hughes Network Systems
gianna_clark DEPLOYMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR:
Gianna Clark
Managing Director Six Sigma
Dominion
phillip_sakowitzPhilip E. Sakowitz
Executive Director, Lean Six Sigma Deployment Director
U.S. Army Installation Management Command
tonja_summit Tonja Summit
SVP Enterprise Planning & Strategic Initiatives
Wachovia
randall_hoeflein Randall Hoeflein
Vice President, Continuous Improvement
Rockwell Automation

And if your company is under 3000 employees, check-out strategy sessions from small to midsize business keynotes:

  • Ron Cosper, COO, Millenia Group
  • Shawn Reilley, President, Anderson Packaging
  • Kurt Paquin, SVP Operations & Process Management, Cision

Customize your agenda! Choose from 7 breakthrough streams tailored to perfect deployment across your entire organization

  • 1. Linking Lean Six Sigma with Performance Management: Aligning individual, team and business KPIs to ensure all your development strategies are really driving your business forward
  • 2. Project selection and strategic decision making: Hit the big wins by selecting and prioritizing projects in line with your corporate strategy
  • 3. Embedding creative Lean Six Sigma and innovation for boosted business flexibility and value to the customer
  • 4. Technology test drive demo track – BRAND NEW opportunity to trial the hottest in new Lean Six Sigma and project management technology
  • 5. Small to midsize business focus track: How to create the ultimate competitive edge through tailored training and deployment strategies and complete customer focus
  • 6. Push Lean out to your end-to-end supply chain through coherent supplier development programs and cross company Lean training for slashed costs, quality assurance and a sustainable business
  • 7. ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: Exclusive benchmarking session for mature practitioners by pre-qualification only to ensure you take away the latest in progressive Lean Six Sigma deployment

There’s something to suit mature practitioners and new starters to Lean Six Sigma, small to mid-size businesses and global corporations. From early starters focus days to small to midsize business breakfast sessions you can literally tailor your 4 days to suit the differing needs of your project team – click here to look at the full agenda and find out what you want to attend.

And with this years line up of thought leading speakers you can’t fail to walk away inspired

  • Bank of America
  • Hughes Network Systems
  • Wachovia
  • Carlson Companies
  • Rockwell Automation
  • Dominion
  • Eastman Kodak Co.
  • Millenia Group
  • AmTrust Bank
  • HSBC
  • Anderson Packaging
  • Cision
  • Covance
  • Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
  • Baxter Healthcare
  • United Airlines
  • U.S. Army Installation Management Command
  • W.W. Grainger Inc.
  • Compucredit
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Allstate
  • Schneider Electric
  • Capital One Bank
  • Burgerville
  • Halliburton
  • DTE Energy
  • Dresser-Rand Company
  • The TRIZ Journal
  • Sonoco Products
  • Delphi
  • United Space Alliance
  • The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
  • U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
  • Fort Leavenworth
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  • DoD CIO

To make sure you to take your Lean Six Sigma program to the next level of Performance Excellence register your place today by calling +1.800.882.8684, emailing enquire@iqpc.co.uk or click here to register online

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time .

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