Happy New Year!
It's time for the first workshop of 2007, and it's about Six Sigma by a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Please not the instructions further down on how to register for the event.
Six Sigma in Real Life
Mark Marsico
CoREM’s Workshop for January 9, 2007
Most people in the business world have heard of “Six Sigma” and know that it is some sort of improvement methodology based on systems engineering and statistics. Some even know of its roots at Motorola and General Electric, and the stories from business leaders about how it transformed multi-billion-dollar companies.
We will start the New Year off by a “real world” workshop on Six Sigma: what it is, how it is used, and what it does. You will hear what it is like to be involved in a project, how it can bring striking results to a business, and what certification as a black belt can mean to your career.
Start the year off right by participating in this informative workshop. See directions below for how to reserve your place.
About the Presenter:
Mark Marsico has twenty-five years of experience as an engineer, software developer, and project manager. He has worked in a variety of positions and industries including: mobile computing, healthcare, aerospace, defense, transportation and logistics, steel, retail, and automotive. He is a licensed mechanical engineer, a certified project management professional, and certified Six Sigma black belt. He most recently directed programs to measure and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty for a Fortune 500 company.
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Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Time: Program: 4:00-6:00 PM, Social time: 6:00-6:45
Place: Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Monroeville (directions follow)
Sponsor: CoREM (the Council on Realizing Excellence in Management)
Cost: free
Registration: Contact Brien Palmer at BrienP@adelphia.net or 724-733-5007.
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Directions to Forbes Road Career & Technology Center
The Center borders Boyce Campus of CCAC. Address: 607 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA. 412-373-8100
From Downtown Pittsburgh: Go east on Interstate 376 (Parkway East) approximately 15 miles and get off the Parkway in Monroeville at exit 14B (Plum), just past exit 14A (Rt. 48). Proceed north through the intersection with the traffic light to the stop sign at Beatty Road. Van Horn’s Funeral Home will be on the far left corner. Turn right on to Beatty Road and drive to the second stop sign (Community College of Allegheny County--Boyce Campus entrance). Turn right and go approximately 100 feet. Turn left into the Forbes Road Career & Technology Center entrance (Gateway Press building is on the right).
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CoREM is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. All our revenues come from membership dues. If you find our services valuable, please sign up for membership and submit your tax-deductible $35 fee. (Make checks out to “CoREM”.) Give it to our treasurer Dennis Snedden or send it to him at 613 Library Av., Carnegie, PA 15106-2910.
CoREM provides a forum for the critical study of original and effective leadership methods and principles through collaboration and lifelong learning, to benefit individuals, organizations, and our communities.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
CoREM Workshop Topics this Spring
I'm excited about the range and depth of our workshops coming up. On January 9, we've confirmed Mark Marsico on Practical Applications of Six Sigma. Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on Six sigma, which I think is pretty good.
Then on February 6 we're going to do something we have not done in a long time: the CoREM Board will conduct Deming's Red Bead Experiment, using the CoREM members as workers and bead counters. We'll blog more on the red beads later, but here is a link to a .gov web site with a decent pdf introducing the Red Beads.
March 6 will have us doing DDI Cutting Edge Leadership. DDI has its global headquareters here in wetern PA, and you can see what it does by linking here.
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on May 1, were going to take a crack at facilitating Sun Tzu's "Art of War" as applied to leading an organization. A lot of people ask if Sun Tzu is the same guy we all know from the recipe called General Tsao's Chicken. After looking at the web site above, I think the answer is "definitely not." I have already learned a few things: pronounce Sun Tzu as Soon Zuh .
Here are a few questions to get the ball rolling:
What is Six Sigma?
How is Six sigma related to the red bead experiment?
One thing Sun Tzu advocated was to use deception whenever possible to win a war and minimizae risk. So, is deception ethical under these circumstances? Is deception ever ethical in business?
More on all this stuff later.
Art Davidson
CoREM Pres.
Then on February 6 we're going to do something we have not done in a long time: the CoREM Board will conduct Deming's Red Bead Experiment, using the CoREM members as workers and bead counters. We'll blog more on the red beads later, but here is a link to a .gov web site with a decent pdf introducing the Red Beads.
March 6 will have us doing DDI Cutting Edge Leadership. DDI has its global headquareters here in wetern PA, and you can see what it does by linking here.
AND
on May 1, were going to take a crack at facilitating Sun Tzu's "Art of War" as applied to leading an organization. A lot of people ask if Sun Tzu is the same guy we all know from the recipe called General Tsao's Chicken. After looking at the web site above, I think the answer is "definitely not." I have already learned a few things: pronounce Sun Tzu as Soon Zuh .
Here are a few questions to get the ball rolling:
What is Six Sigma?
How is Six sigma related to the red bead experiment?
One thing Sun Tzu advocated was to use deception whenever possible to win a war and minimizae risk. So, is deception ethical under these circumstances? Is deception ever ethical in business?
More on all this stuff later.
Art Davidson
CoREM Pres.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Now What? How should this blog be organized?
I had a great time yesterday presenting what I have learned about the blogosphere!
We had a well attended CoREM event yesterday at the Forbes Road Technical Center. It started well when I found it not too hard to connect to both the internet and to the data projector on site. The internet connection is through an ethernet wire, and the instructions called for the use of Inernet Explorer instead of my preferred Firefox browser, but it all worked.
I was able to create a new blog for Cas Welch, who was in the front row of the audience. Don't worrry, Cas, I have since deleted it. The point is that the audience saw LIVE the creation of a new blog very quickly. So I hope I removed at least some barriers for people thinking of blogging.
Now the question remains: how should we set up this CoREM leadership blog?
Choices:
1. As is, with one blogger (me for now) who adds posts, and anyone can comment.
2. Change to a group blog, where a number of people can add posts, and anyone anywhere can comment. This could be set up so the only the CoREM board could add posts, or so that, possibly, any paid-up CoREM member could add posts.
3. Split the blog into 2, where one is a group blog just for the board, and no outside comments, and the other looks out to the membership and the outside world. At the moment, I am leaning toward something along this line.
So, anyone reading this, post a comment with suggestions, thoughts, or ideas on how CoREM should set up its blog(s). If you are a CoREM member, mention that in your comment.
Art Davidson
CoREM Pres.
We had a well attended CoREM event yesterday at the Forbes Road Technical Center. It started well when I found it not too hard to connect to both the internet and to the data projector on site. The internet connection is through an ethernet wire, and the instructions called for the use of Inernet Explorer instead of my preferred Firefox browser, but it all worked.
I was able to create a new blog for Cas Welch, who was in the front row of the audience. Don't worrry, Cas, I have since deleted it. The point is that the audience saw LIVE the creation of a new blog very quickly. So I hope I removed at least some barriers for people thinking of blogging.
Now the question remains: how should we set up this CoREM leadership blog?
Choices:
1. As is, with one blogger (me for now) who adds posts, and anyone can comment.
2. Change to a group blog, where a number of people can add posts, and anyone anywhere can comment. This could be set up so the only the CoREM board could add posts, or so that, possibly, any paid-up CoREM member could add posts.
3. Split the blog into 2, where one is a group blog just for the board, and no outside comments, and the other looks out to the membership and the outside world. At the moment, I am leaning toward something along this line.
So, anyone reading this, post a comment with suggestions, thoughts, or ideas on how CoREM should set up its blog(s). If you are a CoREM member, mention that in your comment.
Art Davidson
CoREM Pres.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
December 5, 2006 CoREM Event
I thought I would post the blurb for the up-coming seminar, which will makes this a blog on blogging, at least for this post. Note the registration instructions at the end.
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Learning, Leading, and Blogging
with Art Davidson
CoREM Workshop for December 5, 2006
Today, to have an effective web site is to have a blog. And CoREM has decided to join the 21st century with its own blog, to be called “Leading Leaders and Leadership.” Art Davidson has been exploring this new medium, and will present what he has found at this interactive workshop. Blogs have been made famous because of their disruptive effects on mainstream journalism, and many people think of blogging only as a variation of journalism. But blogs are not just for journalists. Blogs attract people to a web site, a business, a person, or a cause, because of their ease of use and interactivity. That is, blogs let opinions flow in multiple directions, with ease. CoREM is in position to effectively use a blog because of its monthly meetings. These meetings provide a salient focus for a blog for members to explore after the meetings, or if they missed a meeting, and for people everywhere around the world to participate in what CoREM does. At this workshop, you will learn about some of the different types of blogs, the plusses and minuses of having one, and where blogging is headed. We will ask participants for other ideas for the aim and organization of the new CoREM blog. Some of you may be blogging already, and could help get this new one up. Others of you might learn how a blog could impact your own life, business, or organization.
Bio for Art Davdison: Arthur Davidson has been learning about management and leadership with CoREM almost from its start in 1993. He has served on the CoREM board since 1998, and has been president since 2005. He is on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the executive director of a 7 million dollar per year research center, The Center for Circuit and System Solutions. He teaches a course on leadership for engineering undergrads called “Business for Engineers.”
Date: Dec. 5, 2006
Time: Program - 4:00-6:00 PM, Social time - 6:00-6:45
Place: Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Monroeville (directions follow)
Sponsor: CoREM (the Council on Realizing Excellence in Management)
Cost: free
Registration: Contact Brien Palmer at BrienP@adelphia.net or 724-733-5007.
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Directions to Forbes Road Career & Technology Center
The Center borders Boyce Campus of CCAC. Address: 607 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA. 412-373-8100
From Downtown Pittsburgh: Go east on Interstate 376 (Parkway East) approximately 15 miles and get off the Parkway in Monroeville at exit 14B (Plum), just past exit 14A (Rt. 48). Proceed north through the intersection with the traffic light to the stop sign at Beatty Road. Van Horn’s Funeral Home will be on the far left corner. Turn right on to Beatty Road and drive to the second stop sign (Community College of Allegheny County--Boyce Campus entrance). Turn right and go approximately 100 feet. Turn left into the Forbes Road Career & Technology Center entrance (Gateway Press building is on the right).
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CoREM is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. All our revenues come from membership dues. If you find our services valuable, please sign up for membership and submit your tax-deductible $35 fee. (Make checks out to “CoREM”.) Give it to our treasurer Dennis Snedden or send it to him at 613 Library Av., Carnegie, PA 15106-2910.
CoREM provides a forum for the critical study of original and effective leadership methods and principles through collaboration and lifelong learning, to benefit individuals, organizations, and our communities.
The CoREM Leadership Blog is Blogging
This is a new blog on Leading, Leaders, and Leadership, organized by CoREM, The Council on Realizing Excellence in Management. CoREM orgainizes monthly seminars on how to run smart, quality organizations, in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.
This blog will probably take on a life of its own, but at the very least it will provide a forum for CoREM participants to discuss those live meetings.
And this new blog might attract speakers, and new members for CoREM.
This is just the first post, to get things strated.
Link here to the CoREM web site.
The December 5 meeting of CoREM will be about blogging for CoREM and for your Organization.
Arthur Davidson
CoREM President
This blog will probably take on a life of its own, but at the very least it will provide a forum for CoREM participants to discuss those live meetings.
And this new blog might attract speakers, and new members for CoREM.
This is just the first post, to get things strated.
Link here to the CoREM web site.
The December 5 meeting of CoREM will be about blogging for CoREM and for your Organization.
Arthur Davidson
CoREM President
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