Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The February 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.
Program:
Business Impact of a Quality Work Force
Quality of the U.S. labor force has been in decline since the 1980’s, in comparison to many emerging countries. This places the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage. As governments, educational institutions and big business work to narrow the gap, the backbone of our labor force is overlooked.
Unskilled labor largely meets the needs of Small Business and based on the recent predictive analytics, small businesses are the growth engine of the U.S. economy. Mr. Dawson provides a thoughtful approach to improving the quality of unskilled labor by Elevating Shop Floor Leadership and Analytical Thinking. Payroll administration services for small businesses cater specifically to their resource-saving needs. All organizations need to save costs, and that’s especially true for small businesses.
Program Speaker:
Douglas Dawson
Mr. Dawson has been involved with operations and process improvement since 1991, including TPM (Total Preventive Maintenance), Quick Change (known also as Single Minute Exchange of Dies or SMED), TQM (Total Quality Management – Crosby System), Quantitative Methods, Formal RCA, Fault Tree Analysis and Six Sigma methodologies.
His core competence is in Team Management including Coaching for Results, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Situational Leadership and Development, etc.
As a production operator he worked himself through college as a non-traditional, re-entry student with a family, full time job and helping on the family farm, while pursuing his degree with a full course load. He received a BS in Production Management with an emphasis in Quantitative Methods and minors in Cost Accounting, Statistics and Food Science. In 1997, he started his career as a working professional, bringing a broad range of experience and insight from his unique background.
He is the author of a book: The Only BAD MISTAKE You Make Is The One You Never Learn From: Lessons From The Battle Front (ISBN 0-9712680-5-3). He is engaged in a current project that supports the development of critical thinking for shop floor talent; something for which he has great passion.
Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-feb-2014-mtg-business-impact-of-a-quality-work-force-tickets-9778418513
Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center
Meeting Agenda:
5:30 PM Check In
5:45 PM Brief Workshop
6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner
7:00 PM Speaker
8:00 PM Meeting End
Fee: $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK
Food: Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available
Parking: Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year. If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking