Dear MED Colleagues,
OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators
Announces the next in its ongoing series of professional development
webinars
OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators
Announces the next in its ongoing series of professional development
webinars
Lessons From the Road
working with global clients bent upon sustaining business with quality in a fickle world
A live, interactive video conversation with
Joseph De Feo
CEO, Juran Institute
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
UTC/GMT -5
Sign up for this free webinar at: http://www.obtc.org/webinars. We will reserve your space and send you a reminder e-mail a few days before the session.
What's going on? How are businesses going to remain competitive in a fickle world? Where in this world are good jobs to be found? How are organizations to remain intact at the rate of morphing required by business and politics? Does quality still matter?
Let's see what the peripatetic management educator Joseph De Feo can tell us
Joseph A. De Feo teaches, coaches, writes, manages and leads from a wholly different base of operations than collegian management educators. The renowned management consultancy Juran Institute [Juran] was founded in 1979 by Dr. Joseph M. Juran to provide research and pragmatic solutions to enable organizations from any industry to have the tools and techniques for managing quality and performance excellence. Joe, with a worldwide team of consultants and trainers, carries on this vital work, learning daily from their global clients the hard new facts of business life. Engagement by engagement, sector-by-sector, region-by-region, our fellow management educators at Juran are testing theories in action; constantly refining their capacity to be "The Source for Quality".
Joe is "road warrior" engaged in improvement challenges with a range of leaders of some of the world's most prominent brands to heads of rural American hospitals. From Korea to Italy, Vermont to Texas, and on to Japan, Joe's travels yield a rare perspective on what is happening "out there" which he shares with us in this live, interactive OBTS webinar. As is the practice in this OBTS Series, we will also learn more about Joe and his remarkable personal story of long and close collaboration with Dr. Juran. This culminated in co-editing and authoring the Sixth Edition of the Juran Quality Handbook (Wiley, 2010). Dr. Juran was contributing his latest thoughts on managing for quality nearly to his last days. He died in 2008 at the age of 103, an avid fellow management educator whose passion for advancing practice of management lives in the work and example of his successor, Joseph De Feo.
OBTS Webinar Series connects prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Not only will we learn more about these educators work and have the opportunity to discuss issues, we also may make new connections among our colleagues that can lead to future study groups, research initiatives and other professional development activities. In planning the series, we thought that not only learning more about what people do would be important but also how they view the challenges for the future. We are very pleased that Joe De Feo will be working with us and adding a difference perspective to our work. And conversations can continue at OBTC 2011 at Marquette University whose theme is Open to Possibilities: self/students/community/world. Look for notice of an early December OBTS Webinar with Program Coordinator Kathy Kane.
We look forward to you joining us on Tuesday, 17 November, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST. Again, please sign up at: http://www.obtc.org/webinars
Webinar Series Coordinator Joan Weiner, weinerjl@drexel.edu, 215 895-1797.
Webinar Moderator David Fearon, fearon@ccsu.edu, 860 832 3280.
The OBTS webinar connection is co-sponsored by Drexel University's Lebow College of Business, Center for Teaching Excellence.
I hope you can join us,
David
David S. Fearon, Sr., Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Travelers EDGE Faculty Advisor
Juran Fellow
Management and Organization Department
School of Business
467 Vance Academic Center
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT 06053
fearon@ccsu.edu
Office: 860 832 3280
Cell: 860 983 5779
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/docfearon