Breakfast Seminars

• Understand how major trends may be affecting your business

• Identify assumptions that shape your organizational culture

• Discover what limits and what enables a culture of high performance through trust and accountability

• Learn commonly used tools that organizations favor

• Utilize research on hard and soft measurements to determine your success

• Choose one strategy to further your personal and organizational goals

Seating is LIMITED. Please RSVP by calling Ellen Buley at 203-931-2908 or email EBuley@newhaven.edu.   

Thursday, May 22, 2008

In today's competitive business environment, efforts to continuously improve both what we do and how we do it are essential to success, if not to survival. Six Sigma is an often-cited means to address that requirement. The Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) roadmap is a significant component of almost any Six Sigma process improvement initiative. This session features "The Ping Pong Factory", an interactive training demonstration used by more than 185 organizations worldwide, to illustrate the elements of the DMAIC methodology and applications to improving a business process. Six seminar volunteers will work in the factory, but all session participants will be involved in developing the "lessons learned."

• See a demonstration of the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology.

• Learn how teams can use the DMAIC roadmap to improve work processes.

• Appreciate a number of the supporting management behaviors that are required to make DMAIC work effectively.

• Understand why many organizations have chosen DMAIC as one of their primary routes to improvement.