Madison Area Quality and Innovation

Value Stream Mapping - a Short Course
February 17th 2010, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

You know you can do better. You know there are hundreds of ways to improve your overall business or individual department workflow. How do you know where to start? Value Stream Mapping (VSM) could be your answer. More »

Managing Large Scale Change in Your Organization
February 24th 2010, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

In this hands-on, interactive session, Dan Loichinger and Walter Jankowski will review the theory and foundation of managing change, how people react and changing behaviors. They will also provide tools, techniques and best practices of managing large-scale change efforts. You'll walk away with actual tools and templates that you can implement immediately. More »

The Millenial Are Here!  Selling to and Attracting the Millenial Generation
March 3rd 2010, 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y . . . And now the Millennial Generation! … How prepared is your organization to attract this next wave of customers and employees? This interactive session explores the motivating factors of the Millennial Generation those born between 1982 and 2000. What drives their loyalties? What are they looking for in products and services? How can you attract them to your organization, both as employees and as customers? More »

Roundtable:  Creating Sustainable Strategic Advantage through LSS
March 3rd 2010, 5:30 - 7:00 PM

This Roundtable session will focus on how organizations can create sustainable strategic advantage by applying Lean Six Sigma principles and tools. We will discuss how to build quality and flexibility in business processes, using examples from various industries. More »

Preventing problems/Reducing risk using FMEA
March 10th 2010, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Do you feel like your business is always responding to a crisis and in a constant reactionary mode? Are you an ISO or CGMP organization and need to implement a preventative action program? This training session will teach you the basics of using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) tools to help your team identify potential problems and solutions that will minimize the probability and impact of a failure. More »