NOVEMBER DINNER MEETING

November 11, 2008 ( Tuesday )

Why Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard?

Presenter: 

Forrest Breyfogle is a Professional Engineer, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and Reliability Engineer, an ASQ Fellow, and serves on the board of advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performing Excellence. More recently, Mr. Breyfogle received the 2004 Crosby Medal for his book, Implementing Six Sigma 2nd ed. Mr. Breyfogle began his career with IBM in development and later transferred to the product test organization. Within these organizations he became very interested in the benefits from the wise use of statistical techniques. From 1980 to 1992 Mr. Breyfogle served IBM in applying “Six Sigma methodology” to testing, development, manufacturing, and service organizations.

Mr. Breyfogle has conducted numerous Lean Six Sigma workshop sessions throughout the world. He has conducted both on-site and public Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Champion, and Executive training sessions. He has coached an array of individuals and organizations on the wise application of Six Sigma techniques. Smarter Solutions, Inc. has had the honor of serving a distinguished group Fortune 100 clients to include Dell, IBM, BAMA, and Motorola just to name a few. Mr. Breyfogle has authored or co-authored seven books, and published over 50 technical resources for well known, worldwide publications on Six Sigma and Lean methods.

Brief Description:

Often organizations, which have implemented Six Sigma and Lean, find that their organizations are still:

This presentation describes a measurement and improvement strategy that addresses all these issues and can take organizations to their next level.