Main Conference DAY 1: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:30 Keynote: Securing Buy-In For The Development Of A Joint CPI Program Within The National Guard

  • Initial steps and roadblocks
  • Launching CPI alongside your business strategy
  • Tracking benefits from the beginning of your implementation stage

Colonel BJ Marshall
Deployment Director
National Guard Joint CPI Initiative

9:10 Keynote: Setting Up CPI At MANPRINT

  • Overview of the Army's Human Systems Integration Directorate
  • Challenges in the establishment of a thorough LSS/CPI initiatives
  • Missteps taken and lessons learned

Dr. Michael Drillings
SES, Director for MANPRINT, G-1
DAPE-MR

9:50 Networking Break

10:35 Update On The DoD LSS Deployment Initative

  • Lessons learned from program launch
  • Update on 2009 goals for institutionalization
  • Sustainment goals and five year forecast

J.D. Sicilia, SES
Director, Lean Six Sigma Program Office
Department of Defense

11:15 CPI Enables Transformation At DLA

  • Strategic planning is key to stakeholder acceptance
  • Core transformation levers critical to managing CPI deployment blueprint

Kevin Quick
Chief, Continuous Process Improvement
Defense Logistics Agency

11:55 Lunch

1:10 Industry Perspective – Internal Mission Of CPI

  • Changing strategies of LSS internally
  • Mission assurance expertise and guidance

Alex Eksir
Vice President, Mission Assurance Executive, Raytheon Six Sigma & Quality
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

1:50 CPI As The Nexus Between Strategy And Operational Success

  • Why mandating a one-size fits all solution won’t work for your organization
  • Successes measured by ROI
  • Improving training through focus on operational excellence

F. Lee Campbell IV
Strategic Planning Officer, LSS Deployment Director, Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region, U.S. Army
Military District of Washington

2:30 Networking Break

3:15 Process Mapping – Assessing Scope Of Projects With Limited Resourcing

  • Creating a strategy that best matches your expectations and requirements
  • Understand the full lifecycle of LSS project prior to beginning

Keith Furman
Chief, Lean Six Sigma Program
Defense Finance & Accounting Service

3:55 Theory Of Inventive Problem Solving And Its Potential For Application Within Defense LSS/CPI

  • Understand the basis of TRIZ
  • Learn from forty inventive principles and how to use them to resolve difficult contradiction issues
  • How to integrate TRIZ into your lean six sigma practices

Dr. Kai Yang
Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Wayne State University

4:35 End Of Day One

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