Conference Day Two: Wednesday, December 10, 2008

8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Monica Painter
Associate Partner, Public Sector Operations Strategy Leader & Global Lean Six Sigma Leader
IBM Global Business Services

8:15 Fostering A Culture Of Innovation

• Starting at the top
• Combating a culture of consumption
• The “want” of “better”

David R. Clifton
Director, Marine Corps Business Enterprise
Headquarters, USMC (LR)

8:55 Advances In Experimentation For Improving Products And Processes

• Experimentation Is Learning
• The Controlled Experiment
• The Statistical Framework
• Choosing Designs

Heath Rushing
Six Sigma Training Manager
SAS Institute Inc., JMP division

10:20 Changing How The US Army Does Business

• Building the Army now and for the future – complex interrelationships
• Project execution and training: building the bench
• Power steering tracking
• Army transformation done right

Nancy Moulton
Deputy Deployment Director, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (OASA / ALT)

11:00 DoD Case Study: Successful Deployment Of Continuous Process Improvement In The U.S. Air Force

• Taking an enterprise approach with leader standard work
• Moving beyond rapid Improvement events to sustainable continuous process improvement
• Why cultural change is more important than technical CPI tools in sustaining gains

Thomas Cluley
MLSSB, Shingijutsu trained, former Director at leading implementer of Lean, Wiremold Corporation
Chief Operations Partner MainStream GS

1:00 Afternoon Keynote: Air Force Smart Operations

• AFSO 21 aim: to increase AF combat capability through direct linkage to AF core mission
• Increasing productivity of our most valuable asset – people
• End goal: significant increase to critical equipment availability rates and improved response time

Brig Gen John D. Posner
USAF, Director
Air Force Smart Operations

1:40 Deploying LSS across the DoD Enterprise – Panel Discussion

An unparalleled opportunity to understand transformation across the DoD

Panelists will include:

Brig Gen John D. Posner USAF, Special Assistant to the Secretary Air Force, Director Air Force Smart Operations	COL Nicholas C. Amodeo USA GS Army Lean Six Sigma Program Director
J. D. Sicilia Director, Lean Six Sigma Program Office Department of Defense	Janet Perryman Deputy Director for Continuous Process Improvement NAVSEA

Moderated by:

Monica Painter
Associate Partner, Public Sector Operations Strategy Leader & Global Lean Six Sigma Leader
IBM Global Business Services

3:10Supercharged Kaizen LEAN = Learn, Examine, Amend, Note

• Utilize Kaizen methods
• Apply new learning to current projects
• Drive project management by value and not just cost reduction

Thomas Mc Nellis, PMP, CQM, CSSMBB, PhD 'Effective Business Research' (AFEBResearch)

Sgt Esua Borja Researcher USMC

4:10 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

Monica Painter
Associate Partner, Public Sector Operations Strategy Leader & Global Lean Six Sigma Leader
IBM Global Business Services

4:20 End Of Main Conference

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