Course Summary:

Selecting, Managing, and Sustaining Continuous Improvement Projects

Course #L396
March 23-25, 2010
Pyle Center*, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin
Course Fee: $1095 Discount Is Available

Benefits

This practical three-day course is devoted to presenting practical information to professionals assigned one or more of the following responsibilities: identifying, prioritizing, organizing, executing, sustaining and/or reviewing the results of continuous improvement events.
Most importantly, the course emphasizes how continuous improvement events fit into a Lean improvement strategy.
Participants will gain an understanding of:

Project selection versus position on the Lean performance continuum
The value of leveraging value-stream maps during the project selection process
How successful continuous improvement events lead to:

Shorter order fulfillment times

Reduced raw, WIP, and finish goods inventories

Improved quality

Creation of capacity with same human and capital assets

Improved cash flow

Improved employee morale

Topics

Lean Performance Continuum
Value-Steam Mapping
Continuous Improvement and 5S
Prioritizing Continuous Improvement Events
Measuring Benefits of Continuous Improvement Events
Identifying Continuous Improvement Team Leaders
Forming and Training Continuous Improvement Team Members
Organizing and Managing a Continuous Improvement Event
Sustaining results of a Continuous Improvement Event

Audience

This course will benefit managers responsible for overseeing a continuous improvement program and leaders of continuous improvement events. The course provides a rationale for how continuous improvement events fit into a larger improvement strategy along with the details of identifying, prioritizing, executing, sustaining, and reviewing continuous improvement events to assure value-based performance improvements. The content will be of particular benefit to:

COOs of mid-sized manufacturing companies
Directors and managers of continuous improvement
Plant managers
Six sigma green belts and black belts
Individuals responsible for leading continuous improvement events

Earn PDH, LU, CEU

By participating in this course, you will earn 18 Professional Development Hours (PDH) and 1.8 Continuing Education Units (CEU). Learn more about PDH, LU, CEU and state licensing boards.

General Information

Fee Covers Notebook and other course materials, break refreshments, lunches and certificate.

Cancellation Policy No-Penalty Cancellation To cancel your enrollment, you must notify us promptly. Please consider re-enrolling in a future course. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.

Accommodations We have reserved a block of sleeping rooms ($112/single; $127/double, including parking and Madison Taxi's silver cab from the airport) for course participants at the Campus Inn, 601 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. To reserve a room, call 800-589-6285 or 608-257-4391 and indicate that you will be attending this course under group code 95283. Room requests made later than March 1 will be subject to availability.

Course Location This course will be held at Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. 608-262-1122

Course Discount Team Discount Fee: $995 each, if two or more people from the same organization enroll in the course. Save $100 per person.

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