Agenda for Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Our July meeting is a joint SSQ/ASQ meeting hosted by ASQ. We will be meeting at Country Inn & Suites, which is across the parking lot from our regular location. Pricing for July will follow ASQ's model, ranging from free to $26. **Please RSVP using the ASQ San Diego website.
Stan Rifkin Is there a disconnect between organizational strategy and quality? As quality professionals why is it that we have to fight so hard to convince our organizations to adopt quality principles and practices? Might it be because in the appropriate priorities for our organizations quality is not placed in the top three? This presentation frames quality improvement initiatives in terms of organizational strategy and explains where -- in different strategies -- quality ranks. It also presents how to re-frame quality in terms of what each strategy is trying to optimize. In the speaker's experience, this re-framing remarkably accelerates the adoption of quality initiatives. About Our Speaker Stan Rifkin is a principal with Master Systems Inc., an advisory services firm in its 23rd year. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt who focuses on knowledge work, primarily software management and development. He has been the associate editor in chief for the quality and management areas of IEEE Software magazine, was a founding member of the editorial board of Empirical Software Engineering, was a project leader at the Software Engineering Institute and on the Project Management Institute's Organizational Project Management Maturity Model, and is a founder and operates the San Diego Software Process Improvement Network. Stan received his BS in business (quantitative methods), MS in engineering (computer science), and doctorate in executive leadership and organizational systems. Location (July Only)
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