Management Seminar, by Author Dr. Dean Schroeder,
In Racine, WI - Ideally placed between Chicago & Milwaukee :)
We all "know" that the usual suggestion box, with financial rewards
based on the first year's savings, do not usually work well. For all
the usual reasons. But we need those bright ideas coming in from
everyone if we are to maintain and grow the company. How can we keep
those ideas coming in, and make them worthwhile as well?
Yes, there are ways to generate lots of ideas to make the product more
fitting to the customer, easier on the people who do the work, and
save a little money in the process. There are ways to give financial
rewards that encourage ideas, while the company saves even more! And
they really work, in manufacturing and service businesses, in union
and non-union shops, in red blooded American companies. They can work
in your company; they can work in your department.
The book, Ideas Are Free, describes successful ways to get valuable
ideas into practice to help you and your company. Now you can hear
Dean Schroeder, co-author, explain why companies that search out all
ideas, including "small" ones, develop a competitive advantage that
can't be copied. Come hear Dean offer ways that you too, can easily
get two ideas per month per employee -- and put most of them to use!
Dean will speak to the American Society for Quality (ASQ),
Racine-Kenosha-Walworth Section on April 14. [Telephone (262) 552-6690
for reservations.] He will also speak to the Southeast Wisconsin
Manufacturers' Alliance (SEWMA) on Friday, 4/15. [email to Paul
Schumacher,
pschumacher@tcbp.org for reservations.]
Meeting details:
Host: Racine-Kenosha-Walworth Section, American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Who: Dean M. Schroeder, Director, MBA Program, Valparaiso
University
What: Ideas are free! Key usable highlights from the book
Where: Racine Marriott Hotel, 7111 Wash. Ave. (Hwy. 20),
Racine, WI
When: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Meet & Greet, 5:30; Dinner ($15), 6:15; Program (no charge), 7:00
For reservations, call (262) 552-6690
Host: Southeast Wisconsin Manufacturers' Alliance (SEWMA)
Who: Dean M. Schroeder, Director, MBA Program, Valparaiso
University
What: Ideas are free! Management benefits of successful idea
development systems -- a short How To session
Where: CATI -- Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation, 2320
Renaissance Blvd, Sturtevant, WI 53177-1763.
When: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:00 am. For reservations email
to Paul
Schumacher,
pschumacher@tcbp.org.
Speaker info: Dr. Schroeder, Ph.D., is Director, MBA Program and
Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso
University. He is an experienced leader of organizational
transformations, having started up two companies and, as an outside
CEO, led the turnaround of two others. His international consulting
clients include Siemens, Unilever, Fifth Third Bank, Hayworth, Girl
Scouts of America, Medtronics, Cummins Engine, Toyota, Panafon (the
European wireless communications company), Dresser Industries, Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), and Halliburton.
See you there!
Jay
--
Jay Warner
Principal Scientist
Warner Consulting, Inc.
4444 North Green Bay Road
Racine, WI 53404-1216
USA
Ph: (262) 634-9100
FAX: (262) 681-1133
email:
quality@a2q.com
web:
http://www.a2q.com
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