For Immediate Release
Learn to Sustain a Lean Six Sigma Culture
ASQ Lean Six Sigma Conference Offers Largest Program Ever
Milwaukee, Wis., October 14, 2008 – During these deteriorating economic times, it is more important than ever for organizations to be more vigilant about cutting costs and boosting the bottom line. An option is to instill a Lean and Lean Six Sigma culture when tackling projects to save money. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is once again hosting the 2009 Lean Six Sigma Conference, March 2–3, 2009, in Phoenix, Ariz., to teach professionals needed skills to take back to their organizations.
Grow Your Organization Through Lean
This year’s conference will focus on sustaining the culture of Lean Six Sigma. ASQ is offering its largest conference program yet of sessions—more than 45—from which attendees can choose. Sessions will cover topics crucial to a variety of industries including traditional manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial services and many more. Sessions are available for the novice to the expert.
A snapshot of sessions being offered:
- Effectively Integrating Lean Six Sigma Into an Organizational Culture
- Setting Goals With Lean Thinking
- Social Responsibility Through Lean Enterprise
- Latest Trends in Lean Six Sigma for Financial Services
- Faster Organizational Change With Lean/Six Sigma
- Lean Office Challenges and Solutions
- Reducing Prescription Errors With an Emphasis on Patient Safety
- Permanently Solving a Complex Long-Term Problem
The full program is available for viewing at www.asq.org/conferences/six-sigma/program/index.html.
CIGNA HealthCare Executive to Keynote
Brett Browchuk, senior vice president of service operations at CIGNA HealthCare, will address attendees Monday, March 2. His must see presentation is titled, Leveraging Lean Six Sigma to Cut the Gordian Knot of Healthcare. CIGNA’s quality journey, which began in 2003, has had a significant impact on its quality and internal efficiencies. However, CIGNA sees as its social responsibility the need to do what it can to address our nation’s healthcare crisis. A new mission and guiding framework have been established that are aimed at creating a better understanding of the company’s customers and key stakeholders. Browchuk will discuss CIGNA’s deployment model, its impact to date, and its emerging role in helping change the future of healthcare.
As senior vice president of service operations at CIGNA, Browchuk leads all service functions in support of more than 9.3 million CIGNA HealthCare members nationwide. He has a strong background of strategic service leadership experience from well-known consumer-aligned companies. Most recently, he served in a variety of managing director roles at Putnam Investments, overseeing shareholder service delivery and large service organizations. He also worked at Fidelity Management & Research Company as senior vice president of its global trading department.
The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 90,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
